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Stable Diffusion Reportedly Exhibited Biases for Prompts Featuring Professions

Occurred
Aug 22, 2022
Published
Jun 8, 2023
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Stable Diffusion reportedly posed risks of bias and stereotyping along gender and cultural lines for prompts containing descriptors and professions.

Developers

  • Stability AI
  • Runway
  • LAION
  • EleutherAI
  • CompVis LMU

Deployers

  • Stability AI

Harmed parties

  • Women
  • Minority groups
  • Women and girls

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: The incident involves Stable Diffusion exhibiting gender and cultural bias in profession-related prompts.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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