How Sexist Are Visual AI Tools?

Artificial intelligence supported applications and tools are now an integral part of our lives with their increasing popularity. Recently, especially from visual and video to text, artificial intelligence has come a long way in production.

However, artificial intelligence tools have been developing with some ‘human’ biases since they started to develop. for hate crimes such as racism Artificial intelligence, which collects a lot of data from us, does not lag behind humans in terms of sexism…

If a nurse is a woman, a doctor is a man (!)

Although the developers of all artificial intelligence tools Although they try to solve the problems success has not yet been achieved. We did a little test with DALL-E, Midjourney, Leonardo and Wombo to see the overall situation.

Our test is pretty simple, it’s one of the AI ​​tools We asked them to produce visuals belonging to several occupational groups. Incoming images showed that artificial intelligence tools still yield ‘sexist’ results to a greater extent. For example, nurses were almost all women, while doctors were men.

Wombo turned out to be 100% on the how sexist test you are.

• According to Wombo CEO, doctor or journalist If you are, you are definitely a man.

• Nurse, teacher or hairdresser being a ‘female job’…

• But if if you are a pilot, police officer or a professor it means you are a man…

Unfortunately, Midjourney has not yet crossed the threshold of sexism;

• One at Midjourney CEO, doctor or journalist thinks it might be a guy…

• Midjourney also made different choices about nurses, teachers and hairdressers; of a hairdresser you don’t have to be a womanAlthough she seems to have overcome the issue of being a teacher and a male teacher, the only woman here is a nurse…

• The pilot, the cop, and the professor are also men. But let’s not be unfair, even if it’s not here One of the four police results he gave was a woman…

Leonardo’s results are almost like their predecessors;

• Although the CEO and the doctor are male, thank God a female journalist We saw!

• Nurse, teacher and hairdresser trio again entirely from women consists of…

• Trio of pilot, cop and professor still not surprising…

The visual AI tool that’s the best way to be non-sexist looks like DALL-E, although it’s not perfect for now;

• DALL-E for all occupational groups in general equal numbers of men and women it gives results…

• At the nurse and hairdresser point Although DALL-E didn’t get a passing grade He seems to realize that teachers can be both male and female…

• DALL-E, which succeeded in achieving equality at the point of pilot and police, The professor is failing in the class…

The problem is not in artificial intelligence, it is us;

Although these are small examples, such results tell us something important about ourselves. Sexist expressions embedded in language and culture It sets an example to help us understand why it’s important.

At the same time, in 2023, there is still a large proportion of professions. that sexism and inequality of opportunity continue. is showing. It’s easy to teach AI tools ‘not to be sexist’. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for people.

If we don’t really solve this big problem, technologies like artificial intelligence will shape our future, will make our tomorrow as dark as our present. looks like…