Artificial intelligence (AI) ethics

Text-to-image models, like Midjourney and DALL-E, have been shown to reinforce harmful biases, often perpetuating outdated and discriminatory stereotypes. In this study, we delve into a particularly insidious bias largely overlooked in generative image research: Brilliance Bias. By age six, many children begin to internalize the damaging notion that intellectual brilliance is a male trait—a belief that persists into adulthood. Our findings demonstrate that popular image AI models possess this bias, further entrenching the misguided notion that exceptional intelligence is inherently male.