Generative AI models generate AI hype

Over 90% of images of AI produced by a popular image generation tool contain humanoids

Text-to-image generators such as DALL-E 2 have been pitched as making stock photos obsolete. Specifically, generating cover images for news articles is one of the use cases envisioned for these models. One downside of this application is that like most AI models, these tools perpetuate biases and stereotypes in their training data. But do these models also perpetuate stereotypes about AI, rather than people? After all, stock images are notorious for misleading imagery such as humanoid robots that propagate AI hype. We tested Stable Diffusion, a recently released text-to-image tool, and…

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