In using Stable Diffusion for a DnD related project, I've found that it's actually weirdly hard to get it to generate people (of either sex) that aren't attractive - I wonder if it's a bias in the training materials, or a deliberate bias introduced into the models because most people want attractive people in their AI pics
It's trained on professionally taken photos. Professional photographers tend to prefer taking photos of attractive subjects.
Yeah all of my professional photographers hate me.
That's true, but it's not like ugly people don't get photographed - ultimately a professional photographer is going to take photos of whoever pays them to do so. That explanation accounts for part of the bias I think, but not all of it
If I would get pictures taken by a photographer I would not allow them to be used as training data. I don't even like looking into a mirror. Maybe that's part of why there are less ugly people pictures to train with.
I would guess that ugly people are less likely to commission photos.
In using Stable Diffusion for a DnD related project, I've found that it's actually weirdly hard to get it to generate people (of either sex) that aren't attractive - I wonder if it's a bias in the training materials, or a deliberate bias introduced into the models because most people want attractive people in their AI pics
It's trained on professionally taken photos. Professional photographers tend to prefer taking photos of attractive subjects.
Yeah all of my professional photographers hate me.
That's true, but it's not like ugly people don't get photographed - ultimately a professional photographer is going to take photos of whoever pays them to do so. That explanation accounts for part of the bias I think, but not all of it
If I would get pictures taken by a photographer I would not allow them to be used as training data. I don't even like looking into a mirror. Maybe that's part of why there are less ugly people pictures to train with.
I would guess that ugly people are less likely to commission photos.