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Is AI sexist? How artificial images are perpetuating gender bias in reality

Images generated by AI tool Dall-E. When asked to generate an image of someone who practises medicine or runs a restaurant or business, it suggests men. When asked to generate images of someone who works as a nurse, home help or domestic assistant, it suggests women. © ChatGPT

AI is increasingly a feature of everyday life. But with its models based on often outdated data and the field still dominated by male researchers, as its influence on society grows it is also perpetuating sexist stereotypes.

A simple request to an image-generating artificial intelligence (AI) tool such as Stable Diffusion or Dall-E is all it takes to demonstrate this.

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