AI Tool Midjourney Fabricates Politician Portraits Based on Stereotypes

An AI tool called Midjourney can generate fake politician portraits from text prompts like "Florida politician"
The AI-generated politician portraits tended to depict middle-aged or older white males
Occasionally the AI would generate women or people of color based on the state
The AI followed regional stereotypes like cowboy hats for Texas and leis for Hawaii
None of the AI-generated portraits are of real people, they are fabricated by the AI

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Posted 9/14/2023, 5:33:52 PM