Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias

Key points

• In this paper, we examine if and how generative AI may contribute to these dynamics.1
• We audited 27 text-to-image generators released between 2022 and 2026 using simple prompts that never mention attractiveness or beauty, analyzing 51,300 generated faces and 160,196 photographs of real people across primary and supplementary comparisons.1
• When focusing our analysis on gender, we find that 37% of female-prompted generated faces outscored the median professional fashion model.1
• Generative AI can reproduce racial hierarchies and gendered patterns of beauty and alter the context in which real people are judged.1

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• [1]Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 15, 06:48 PM

  Societies reward people judged to be attractive by standards intertwined with gender and race.

  In this paper, we examine if and how generative AI may contribute to these dynamics.

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