DALL•E mini biases (in the non-pejorative sense)

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by mrb - opened

DALL•E mini seems to have some interesting biases picked up from its dataset that pop to the surface in the absence of other input.

For example, a blank or single space tends to produce images of individual women from southeast Asia wearing what look like saris. Other results tend to fall into categories like a flat monochromatic color, or a single color circle on a blank background.

Similar output is produced by a period, colon, semicolon, or a comma. Occasionally a southeast Asian man puts in an appearance.

$ of course produces images of money, but other punctuation has its own twists. An asterisk (ie. *) produces anime-like headshots. An apostrophe (ie. ') produces animals.

And over and over in the results we see circles, circular emblems, circular icons or logo-like constructions (usually meaningless, but occasionally edging toward something recognizable).

Any ideas where these particular associations may be coming from? I imagine there must be a lot of images of people from southeast Asia that are unlabeled in the corpus to associate a blank prompt with those results, for example.

Wishing I could upvote this discussion. Still no answers... ;(

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