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Text-to-image (TTI) models are increasingly used in professional, educational, and creative contexts, yet their outputs often embed and amplify social biases. This paper investigates gender representation in six state-of-the-art open-weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Franck Vandewiele , Remi Synave , Samuel Delepoulle , Remi Cozot

Background: Text-to-image generation models are widely used across numerous domains. Among these models, Stable Diffusion (SD) - an open-source text-to-image generation model - has become the most popular, producing over 12 billion images…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Giordano d'Aloisio , Tosin Fadahunsi , Jay Choy , Rebecca Moussa , Federica Sarro

State-of-the-art Text-to-Image models like Stable Diffusion and DALLE$\cdot$2 are revolutionizing how people generate visual content. At the same time, society has serious concerns about how adversaries can exploit such models to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yiting Qu , Xinyue Shen , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Savvas Zannettou , Yang Zhang

Generative AI offers vast opportunities for creating visualisations, such as graphics, videos, and images. However, recent studies around AI-generated visualisations have primarily focused on the creation process and image quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Siiri Leppälampi , Sonja M. Hyrynsalmi , Erno Vanhala

It has been shown that many generative models inherit and amplify societal biases. To date, there is no uniform/systematic agreed standard to control/adjust for these biases. This study examines the presence and manipulation of societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Philip Wootaek Shin , Jihyun Janice Ahn , Wenpeng Yin , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

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

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

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

Recent large-scale T2I models like DALLE-3 have made progress in reducing gender stereotypes when generating single-person images. However, significant biases remain when generating images with more than one person. To systematically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yixin Wan , Kai-Wei Chang

Recent progress in generative AI, especially diffusion models, has demonstrated significant utility in text-to-image synthesis. Particularly in healthcare, these models offer immense potential in generating synthetic datasets and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yan Luo , Muhammad Osama Khan , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Muneeb Afzal , Titus Fidelis Wuermeling , Min Shi , Yu Tian , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Anonymization plays a key role in protecting sensible information of individuals in real world datasets. Self-driving cars for example need high resolution facial features to track people and their viewing direction to predict future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Pascal Zwick , Kevin Roesch , Marvin Klemp , Oliver Bringmann

Text-to-Image artificial intelligence (AI) recently saw a major breakthrough with the release of Dall-E and its open-source counterpart, Stable Diffusion. These programs allow anyone to create original visual art pieces by simply providing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Nassim Dehouche , Kullathida Dehouche

Taking advantage of the many recent advances in deep learning, text-to-image generative models currently have the merit of attracting the general public attention. Two of these models, DALL-E 2 and Imagen, have demonstrated that highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Robin Zbinden

This study delves into gender classification systems, shedding light on the interaction between social stereotypes and algorithmic determinations. Drawing on the "averageness theory," which suggests a relationship between a face's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Miriam Doh , Anastasia Karagianni

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed worldview and restrict opportunities for minority groups. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xudong Shen , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

Image-generating AI, which allows users to create images from text, is increasingly used to produce visual content. Despite its advancements, cultural biases in AI-generated images have raised significant concerns. While much research has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xingyu Lan , Jiaxi An , Yisu Guo , Chiyou Tong , Xintong Cai , Jun Zhang

Text-to-image generators (T2Is) are liable to produce images that perpetuate social stereotypes, especially in regards to race or skin tone. We use a comprehensive set of 93 stigmatized identities to determine that three versions of Stable…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kyra Wilson , Sourojit Ghosh , Aylin Caliskan

Text-to-image generative models are becoming increasingly popular and accessible to the general public. As these models see large-scale deployments, it is necessary to deeply investigate their safety and fairness to not disseminate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Moreno D'Incà , Elia Peruzzo , Massimiliano Mancini , Dejia Xu , Vidit Goel , Xingqian Xu , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi , Nicu Sebe

This study investigates the extent to which contemporary Text-to-Image artificial intelligence (AI) models perpetuate gender stereotypes and cultural inaccuracies when generating depictions of professionals in Saudi Arabia. We analyzed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Khaloud S. AlKhalifah , Malak Mashaabi , Hend Al-Khalifa