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This paper presents a community-centered study of cultural limitations of text-to-image (T2I) models in the South Asian context. We theorize these failures using scholarship on dominant media regimes of representations and locate them…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Rida Qadri , Renee Shelby , Cynthia L. Bennett , Remi Denton

The recent advancement of large and powerful models with Text-to-Image (T2I) generation abilities -- such as OpenAI's DALLE-3 and Google's Gemini -- enables users to generate high-quality images from textual prompts. However, it has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yixin Wan , Arjun Subramonian , Anaelia Ovalle , Zongyu Lin , Ashima Suvarna , Christina Chance , Hritik Bansal , Rebecca Pattichis , Kai-Wei Chang

Recent advances in generative AI have enabled visual content creation through text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, despite their creative potential, T2I models often replicate and amplify societal stereotypes -- particularly those…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Saharsh Barve , Andy Mao , Jiayue Melissa Shi , Prerna Juneja , Koustuv Saha

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models are largely used in AI-powered real-world applications and value creation. However, their strategic deployment raises critical concerns for responsible AI management, particularly regarding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Abu Sufian , Cosimo Distante , Marco Leo , Hanan Salam

Evidence shows that text-to-image (T2I) models disproportionately reflect Western cultural norms, amplifying misrepresentation and harms to minority groups. However, evaluating cultural sensitivity is inherently complex due to its fluid and…

The surge in the popularity of text-to-image generators (T2Is) has been matched by extensive research into ensuring fairness and equitable outcomes, with a focus on how they impact society. However, such work has typically focused on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sourojit Ghosh

Generative image models produce striking visuals yet often misrepresent culture. Prior work has examined cultural bias mainly in text-to-image (T2I) systems, leaving image-to-image (I2I) editors underexplored. We bridge this gap with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Huichan Seo , Sieun Choi , Minki Hong , Yi Zhou , Junseo Kim , Lukman Ismaila , Naome Etori , Mehul Agarwal , Zhixuan Liu , Jihie Kim , Jean Oh

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is enabling new applications that support creators, designers, and general end users of productivity software by generating illustrative content with high photorealism starting from a given descriptive text as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Ranjita Naik , Besmira Nushi

With the widespread adoption of advanced generative models such as Gemini and GPT, there has been a notable increase in the incorporation of such models into sociotechnical systems, categorized under AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS). Despite their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sanjana Gautam , Pranav Narayanan Venkit , Sourojit Ghosh

Bias in text-to-image (T2I) models can propagate unfair social representations and may be used to aggressively market ideas or push controversial agendas. Existing T2I model bias evaluation methods only focus on social biases. We look…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Text-to-image (T2I) models have emerged as a significant advancement in generative AI; however, there exist safety concerns regarding their potential to produce harmful image outputs even when users input seemingly safe prompts. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Susan Hao , Renee Shelby , Yuchi Liu , Hansa Srinivasan , Mukul Bhutani , Burcu Karagol Ayan , Ryan Poplin , Shivani Poddar , Sarah Laszlo

This paper analyzes the community safety guidelines of five text-to-image (T2I) generation platforms and audits five T2I models, focusing on prompts related to the representation of humans in areas that might lead to societal stigma. While…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Piera Riccio , Georgina Curto , Nuria Oliver

Text-to-Image (TTI) generative models have shown great progress in the past few years in terms of their ability to generate complex and high-quality imagery. At the same time, these models have been shown to suffer from harmful biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Aditya Chinchure , Pushkar Shukla , Gaurav Bhatt , Kiri Salij , Kartik Hosanagar , Leonid Sigal , Matthew Turk

Text-to-image generation (T2I) refers to the text-guided generation of high-quality images. In the past few years, T2I has attracted widespread attention and numerous works have emerged. In this survey, we comprehensively review 141 works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Pengfei Yang , Ngai-Man Cheung , Xinda Ma

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models have been widely adopted across various industries, yet are criticized for frequently exhibiting societal stereotypes. While a growing body of research has emerged to evaluate and mitigate these biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Megan Smith , Venkatesh Thirugnana Sambandham , Florian Richter , Laura Crompton , Matthias Uhl , Torsten Schön

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have transformed visual content creation, producing highly realistic images from natural language prompts. However, concerns persist around their potential to replicate and magnify existing societal biases. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Sedat Porikli , Vedat Porikli

In this paper, we present an empirical study introducing a nuanced evaluation framework for text-to-image (T2I) generative models, applied to human image synthesis. Our framework categorizes evaluations into two distinct groups: first,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Muxi Chen , Yi Liu , Jian Yi , Changran Xu , Qiuxia Lai , Hongliang Wang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qiang Xu

Though research into text-to-image generators (T2Is) such as Stable Diffusion has demonstrated their amplification of societal biases and potentials to cause harm, such research has primarily relied on computational methods instead of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sourojit Ghosh , Nina Lutz , Aylin Caliskan

With the increasing use of image generation technology, understanding its social biases, including gender bias, is essential. This paper presents a large-scale study on gender bias in text-to-image (T2I) models, focusing on everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Leander Girrbach , Stephan Alaniz , Genevieve Smith , Zeynep Akata

Multilingual text-to-image (T2I) models have advanced rapidly in terms of visual realism and semantic alignment, and are now widely utilized. Yet outputs vary across cultural contexts: because language carries cultural connotations, images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chuancheng Shi , Shangze Li , Shiming Guo , Simiao Xie , Wenhua Wu , Jingtong Dou , Chao Wu , Canran Xiao , Cong Wang , Zifeng Cheng , Fei Shen , Tat-Seng Chua
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