Schlagwort: Image Generators

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An AI-generated Book on the American Smile

DALL-E 3 is an excellent image generator and at the same time full of stereotypes and biases. One very interesting phenomenon is that of the American smile, which appears again and again in the images. The idea for the little book „AMERICAN SMILE“ came to Oliver Bendel when he read the blog post „AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression“ (medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf). The author – username jenka – showed a series of „selfies“ made with Midjourney. Regardless of the time period or culture, people smiled in a similar, American way. Oliver Bendel investigated this phenomenon and asked DALL-E 3 to take pictures of smiling people from different eras and cultures. He also got bears and aliens to smile. In fact, with very few exceptions, they all smiled in a similar way. He documented the pictures, along with the prompts, in a little book that can be downloaded here. Bias problems in image generators are addressed in the article „Image Synthesis from an Ethical Perspective“ by Oliver Bendel.

Fig.: The cover of the little book

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Article on the Ethical Challenges of AI-based Image Synthesis

The article „Image Synthesis from an Ethical Perspective“ by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel was submitted on 18 April and accepted on 8 September 2023. It was published on 27 September 2023. From the abstract: „Generative AI has gained a lot of attention in society, business, and science. This trend has increased since 2018, and the big breakthrough came in 2022. In particular, AI-based text and image generators are now widely used. This raises a variety of ethical issues. The present paper first gives an introduction to generative AI and then to applied ethics in this context. Three specific image generators are presented: DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. The author goes into technical details and basic principles, and compares their similarities and differences. This is followed by an ethical discussion. The paper addresses not only risks, but opportunities for generative AI. A summary with an outlook rounds off the article.“ The article was published in the long-established and renowned journal AI & Society and can be downloaded here.

Fig.: Are there biases in image generators? (Image: Ideogram)