Real-world chemists are more diverse than generative AI images suggest

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Real-world chemists are more diverse than generative AI images suggest
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Asking children 'What does a scientist look like?' now results in more illustrations of women and people of color than decades ago. But do generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools also depict the diversity among scientists? Researchers prompted AI image generators for portraits of chemists.

Asking children 'What does a scientist look like?' now results in more illustrations of women and people of color than decades ago. But do generative artificial intelligence tools also depict the diversity among scientists? Researchers prompted AI image generators for portraits of chemists. They found that none of the collections accurately represents the gender, racial or disability diversity among real chemists today.

Millions of images are being created by generative AI each day. And the output of these tools is only as good as their algorithms and the initial images used to train the large language models. Recently, researchers have found that AI image generators may produce content that's not representative of reality -- beyond bodily proportions that aren't close to possible.

Overall, the researchers say that this demonstration illustrates how different image-generating AI can amplify incorrect information about the diversity among chemists. They conclude their study by asking,"Are humans going to control the knowledge generated by AI, or will AI influence the knowledge of generations of people moving forward?"Image privacy could be protected with the use of generative artificial intelligence.

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