BiasMedium
DALL-E Mini Reportedly Reinforced or Exacerbated Societal Biases in Its Outputs as Gender and Racial Stereotypes
- Occurred
- Jun 11, 2022
- Published
- Jun 25, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Publicly deployed open-source model DALL-E Mini was acknowledged by its developers and found by its users to have produced images which reinforced racial and gender biases.
Developers
- Boris Dayma
- Suraj Patil
- Pedro Cuenca
- Khalid Saifullah
- Tanishq Abraham
- Phúc Lê Khắc
- Luke Melas
- Ritobrata Ghosh
Deployers
- Boris Dayma
Harmed parties
- Minority groups
- underrepresented groups
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Model outputs reinforced racial and gender stereotypes, constituting a bias incident without major legal or physical harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8