The idea was to do that exact same thing thousands of times. So the pattern is a very stark pattern. It's that for high paying professions, the generative AI model is overwhelmingly generating pictures of white men. And for low paying professions, it's overwhelmingly generated more pictures of women and darker skinned people.
As pressure mounts on lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence, another problem area of the technology is emerging: AI-generated images. Early research shows these images can be biased and perpetuate stereotypes. Bloomberg reporters Dina Bass and Leonardo Nicoletti dug deep into the data that powers this technology, and they join this episode to talk about how AI image generation works—and whether it’s possible to train the models to produce better results.
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