Overview
Stable Diffusion generates images using artificial intelligence, in response to written prompts. Like many AI models, what it creates may seem plausible on its face but is actually a distortion of reality. An analysis of more than 5,000 images created with Stable Diffusion found that it takes racial and gender disparities to extremes — worse than those found in the real world.
This phenomenon is worth closer examination as image-generation models such as Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, OpenAI’s Dall-E, and other tools like them, rapidly morph from fun, creative outlets for personal expression into the platforms on which the future economy will be built.