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Apple’s cartoony image generator has some bias issues.

Machine learning scientist Jochem Gietema found that the Image Playground app struggled to consistently identify his skin tone and hair texture, and exhibited racial biases when following prompt directions. This isn’t uncommon for AI image generation models, but it’s a blunder that Apple missed despite limiting Image Playground to only faces in illustrated styles, in part to avoid such behavior.

Examples of images generated by Apple’s Image Playground app, using the prompts “skiing” and “basketball.” The avaters for “basketball” mostly depict a black male.
These images were all generated using the same reference photo. Yikes.
Image: Jochem Gietema / Apple
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