Image Recognition
AI models such as Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion are trained on billions of images that have been scraped from the internet. Rockwell used Midjourney to try to generate a fun image of the placenta for Keenen, who studies them. She then started experimenting with other words related to the human reproductive system, and found the same. JULIA ROCKWELLMidjourney’s crude banning of prompts relating to reproductive biology highlights how tricky it is to moderate content around generative AI systems. It also demonstrates how the tendency for AI systems to sexualize women extends all the way to their internal organs, says Rockwell.