The authors generated faces from 27 text-to-image systems released between 2022 and 2026 using simple prompts for people and social categories, without mentioning attractiveness or beauty.
AI image generators produce faces judged more attractive than real people and encode racial bias
An audit of 27 text-to-image systems and a preregistered hiring experiment show beauty bias arises even when prompts never mention attractiveness.
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AJ Alvero · Deepak Varuvel Dennison · Alexandra Crespin · Heeyon Kim · Alejandra Regla-Vargas · Avani Akerkar · +2 more
Research Digest··3 min read
The authors audited 27 text-to-image generators using prompts that never mention beauty, comparing 51,300 generated faces with 160,196 photographs.
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