BiasMedium
Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability
- Occurred
- Mar 23, 2025
- Published
- Mar 30, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A WIRED investigation found that OpenAI's video generation model, Sora, exhibits representational bias across race, gender, body type, and disability. In tests using 250 prompts, Sora was more likely to depict CEOs and professors as men, flight attendants and childcare workers as women, and showed limited or stereotypical portrayals of disabled individuals and people with larger bodies.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Women
- People with larger bodies
- People with disabilities
- People of color
- Marginalized groups
- LGBTQ+ people
- General public
- Women and girls
Tags
- Bias
- Representation bias
- Video generation
- Stereotyping
- Algorithmic bias
- Training data
- Prompting
- Cultural harm
- Ableism
- Fat bias
- Gender bias
- Race and ethnicity
- Media and communications
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Investigation reveals stereotypical and biased representations in AI-generated video content across demographics.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8