arXiv:2508.17465cs.CYcs.AI2025-08AAAI被引 8

Stable Diffusion XL放大肤色偏见,生成图像更黑更少红,且多样性更低。

Bias Amplification in Stable Diffusion's Representation of Stigma Through Skin Tones and Their Homogeneity

  • 用93个受污名化身份测试,发现SD XL在生成时系统性关联特定肤色与污名化身份。
  • SD XL生成肤色比前代暗13.53%、红度低23.76%,且肤色多样性下降30%以上。
  • 模型对污名化群体的描绘更趋同,适合关注生成模型社会偏见的研究者阅读。

文本到图像生成器(T2Is)容易生成强化社会偏见的内容,尤其涉及种族或肤色。本研究利用93个受污名化身份,发现Stable Diffusion三个版本(v1.5、v2.1、XL)均系统性将特定肤色与污名化身份关联。其中,SD XL生成肤色平均暗13.53%、红度低23.76%(均指向更高社会歧视风险),且相比前代模型肤色变异性降低约30%,相较人类人脸数据集降幅达18.89%-56.06%。通过贴近人类感知的指标衡量,发现SD XL对污名化身份人群的肤色多样性最低,60.29%的污名化身份被描绘为缺乏多样性。此外,模型对种族/族裔身份的肤色同质化程度高于其他污名化或非污名化身份,错误强化了生物肤色与社会建构的种族/族裔身份之间的等同关系。由于SD XL是最大最复杂的模型,且用户更偏好其生成结果,这些发现揭示了T2I中偏见放大的机制,加剧了表征伤害,并阻碍多样化的身份图像生成。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Text-to-image generators (T2Is) are liable to produce images that perpetuate social stereotypes, especially in regards to race or skin tone. We use a comprehensive set of 93 stigmatized identities to determine that three versions of Stable Diffusion (v1.5, v2.1, and XL) systematically associate stigmatized identities with certain skin tones in generated images. We find that SD XL produces skin tones that are 13.53% darker and 23.76% less red (both of which indicate higher likelihood of societal discrimination) than previous models and perpetuate societal stereotypes associating people of color with stigmatized identities. SD XL also shows approximately 30% less variability in skin tones when compared to previous models and 18.89-56.06% compared to human face datasets. Measuring variability through metrics which directly correspond to human perception suggest a similar pattern, where SD XL shows the least amount of variability in skin tones of people with stigmatized identities and depicts most (60.29%) stigmatized identities as being less diverse than non-stigmatized identities. Finally, SD shows more homogenization of skin tones of racial and ethnic identities compared to other stigmatized or non-stigmatized identities, reinforcing incorrect equivalence of biologically-determined skin tone and socially-constructed racial and ethnic identity. Because SD XL is the largest and most complex model and users prefer its generations compared to other models examined in this study, these findings have implications for the dynamics of bias amplification in T2Is, increasing representational harms and challenges generating diverse images depicting people with stigmatized identities.

AI偏见图像生成肤色多样性

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