arXiv:2507.12212cs.HCcs.AI2025-07被引 1

AI生成的'丑'形象多指向年长白人男性,暴露深层偏见。

Draw an Ugly Person An Exploration of Generative AIs Perceptions of Ugliness

  • 用13个形容词引导AI生成624张图像,分析其对'丑'的视觉表达
  • 模型将丑与年长白人男性强关联,反而放大主流群体负面标签
  • 尽管试图社会语境化,仍依赖老化、不对称等刻板外貌特征

生成式AI不仅复制人类创造力,也再现深层文化偏见,因此需批判性审视其对'丑'概念的理解与表达。本研究通过迭代提示大型语言模型提取13个与'丑'相关的形容词,并在四个生成模型中基于三个提示生成624张图像。图像中的族裔与社会经济属性由独立编码员标注并进行主题分析。结果表明,AI模型显著将'丑'与年长白人男性关联,反映既有的社会偏见及矛盾偏见——为避免边缘群体刻板化,反而过度投射负面特质至多数群体。定性分析显示,尽管尝试在社会语境中定义'丑',但传统外貌特征如面部不对称与衰老仍是核心视觉符号。这些发现表明,即便努力实现更平等表达,生成式AI仍延续了继承性与悖论性偏见,凸显构建伦理训练范式与推进包容性AI开发方法的紧迫性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Generative AI does not only replicate human creativity but also reproduces deep-seated cultural biases, making it crucial to critically examine how concepts like ugliness are understood and expressed by these tools. This study investigates how four different generative AI models understand and express ugliness through text and image and explores the biases embedded within these representations. We extracted 13 adjectives associated with ugliness through iterative prompting of a large language model and generated 624 images across four AI models and three prompts. Demographic and socioeconomic attributes within the images were independently coded and thematically analyzed. Our findings show that AI models disproportionately associate ugliness with old white male figures, reflecting entrenched social biases as well as paradoxical biases, where efforts to avoid stereotypical depictions of marginalized groups inadvertently result in the disproportionate projection of negative attributes onto majority groups. Qualitative analysis further reveals that, despite supposed attempts to frame ugliness within social contexts, conventional physical markers such as asymmetry and aging persist as central visual motifs. These findings demonstrate that despite attempts to create more equal representations, generative AI continues to perpetuate inherited and paradoxical biases, underscoring the critical work being done to create ethical AI training paradigms and advance methodologies for more inclusive AI development.

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