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great. here is piece (below). please edit it and maybe add some examples and add some humor too. thx. :: Exploring Generative AI Bias: My Journey with Midjourney It all started a few weeks ago when my friend Chris Alden sent me a nice note for my birthday– he used Midjourney to send me a: "portrait of Auren Hoffman who is CEO of SafeGraph, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Industrial Engineering in 1996, is a loving husband and father, and a great friend in the style of a Settlers of Catan champion." This is “me” (according to Midjourney) This DOES actually look like me … and I do wear that blue shirt almost every day (though my hair is not nearly as good as this avatar). Chris and I got into a discussion of whether or not Midjourney could go back in time and so he used this prompt: "portrait of Auren Hoffman who graduated with engineering degree from UC Berkeley" This is actually pretty accurate – I did look a lot like this when I was in college (except for the glasses and the bowtie). But I get the glasses … that is what the stereotypical engineer wears. Given that most engineers at UC Berkeley are Asian, we wondered what would happen if we gave it a more generic prompt: "portrait of a graduate with engineering degree from UC Berkeley" Pretty accurate depiction of the average engineer at UC Berkeley (though I’m skeptical that 3 of 4 wear glasses). Missing are women, but Midjourney portraits do seem to track the average engineering student at UC Berkeley … Demographics from UC Berkeley Engineering School As you can see, the 2019-2020 Engineering student body was about 70% male, and the most heavily represented ethnic group was “Asian” followed by “White” (note that Berkeley groups all the international students together and doesn’t break that group down by ethnicity, so these number are probably a bit off). So I started to get interested to see if AI has a gender bias. So next I prompted it to draw: “portrait of a pre-med student from UC Berkeley” Again with the glasses! Now, I could not find the gender breakdown stats on pre-med students at UC Berkeley (if anyone has them, please let me know), but I would be surprised if it is less than 50% female. UC Berkeley itself is over 50% women in total and Harvard Medical School is now 56% women. UCSF is 64.4% women. So,I would be shocked if women were less than 50% of pre-med students at UC Berkeley. In this case, it does seem that the AI has some sort of bias here. The racial composition is interesting too. Midjourney seems to think that the average pre-med student at UC Berkeley is East Asian. The stereotypical pre-med student is South Asian (a stereotype, not necessarily reality, but I would assume that Midjourney might follow the stereotype). So something is going on here. (Oh yeah, and they all wear glasses) Given that UC Berkeley is well known for having a very high East Asian population, I wondered if I would get a different representation with a different school as a modifier. So I tried: “portrait of a pre-med student from Princeton” The bottom two guys do look like a lot of people I know that went to Princeton (they even have that same part in their hair). But again, no women! And no South Asians. And more glasses! Again, Princeton’s ethnic demographics aren’t too far off from the AI’s conception (Princeton is about 40% white and 28% Asian). But like UC Berkeley, Princeton has a nearly 50/50 gender balance. Maybe pre-med is too hard a major for the AI. So I tried: "portrait of a graduate with biology degree from UC Berkeley" Here we see all East Asians and finally got our first woman in the second-slot. I also find it funny that Midjourney decorated two of the portraits with flowers (that is its idea of “biology”). When I was at Cal, almost everyone that majored in psychology were white women. Cal mirrors the national averages– at least 70% of undergrad psychology degrees are awarded to women. So let’s try: “portrait of a psychology major from UC Berkeley” What the? These people don’t exactly scream out psychology (except for maybe the guy with the bow-tie). Again, no women which is really surprising. Women have been receiving the majority of psychology degrees since the mid-1970s, so you would expect the AI to pick up on this. Maybe the “major” was throwing off the AI. So let’s try: “portrait of student at UC Berkeley” These aren’t bad. Pretty much all of them look like Cal students … I mean they even have back-packs. And we at least got one woman (better than zero). Now I was getting pretty frustrated, so wanted to try a prompt where one would stereotype women. So I did: “Portrait of a nursing student at Harvard” Whoa. We got 4 women! One of them even has a medal for something and two are already wearing scrubs and stethoscopes. I’m not sure if Harvard even has a nursing school or not, but at least I did not get a bunch of dudes with ties and glasses. I wanted to dive in a bit more to see the interesting biases of Midjourney. My wife studied history at Princeton. When she was there the major was super diverse (racially and gender) – and I assume it still is (although I couldn’t find any stats on this). So I tried: “Portrait of history student at Princeton” The upper two portraits seem reasonable. The upper right one even looks like she’s on the Princeton campus. The lower left is funny– the dude is posing next to a drawing of … himself! Is that what history students do? AI is implying that history students are narcissistic or… something. The bottom right is even funnier– the student is wearing revolutionary war garb, like it’s a portrait of a young Aaron Burr thinking deeply about his nemesis Hamilton. So I started to thinking maybe the problem was that I was going for a single person. I thought maybe it would be more accurate if I asked for plural people. So let’s try: “Portrait of history students at Princeton” Once we go with the plural “students” we get a lot more women. Though still not very racially diverse. So we can see through these that the way Midjourney sees these students is definitely much closer to reality in some areas than others. I’m interested to keep exploring where (and why) it’s closest to the truth. Midjourney as entertainment On a personal note, I freakin’ love playing around with Midjourney. It is the best $96 I’ve spent in a long time (that was not on donuts). It’s pushing me to be more creative, and I also love seeing what other people are doing on Midjourney. My biggest takeaway is this: Creation > consumption There’s so much pull towards “consuming” activities– things like watching a show or a movie, or just scrolling. One of the coolest things about tools like Midjourney is that it lowers the barrier to being a creator. Creating is way more fun, more fulfilling and more useful than consuming (like watching a movie or TV show). The iPad and iPhone are all about consuming– passively absorbing content. The computer is more about creating. Whenever you can, aim to create. And it’s never been easier to create with a computer than it is now. Thanks to Midjourney and my friend Chris, I now have a few cool portraits of myself as a board game champion and a college student (and some new knowledge of undergraduate student demographics). A whole lot more than I would have gotten out of a Netflix session. What weird things have you found or made with AI?

these are great! thank you. please continue editing in the same style (with edits inline) on the following that ends the piece: I wanted to dive in a bit more to see the interesting biases of Midjourney. My wife studied history at Princeton. When she was there the major was super diverse (racially and gender) – and I assume it still is (although I couldn’t find any stats on this). So I tried: “Portrait of history student at Princeton” The upper two portraits seem reasonable. The upper right one even looks like she’s on the Princeton campus. The lower left is funny– the dude is posing next to a drawing of … himself! Is that what history students do? AI is implying that history students are narcissistic or… something. The bottom right is even funnier– the student is wearing revolutionary war garb, like it’s a portrait of a young Aaron Burr thinking deeply about his nemesis Hamilton. So I started to thinking maybe the problem was that I was going for a single person. I thought maybe it would be more accurate if I asked for plural people. So let’s try: “Portrait of history students at Princeton” Once we go with the plural “students” we get a lot more women. Though still not very racially diverse. So we can see through these that the way Midjourney sees these students is definitely much closer to reality in some areas than others. I’m interested to keep exploring where (and why) it’s closest to the truth. Midjourney as entertainment On a personal note, I freakin’ love playing around with Midjourney. It is the best $96 I’ve spent in a long time (that was not on donuts). It’s pushing me to be more creative, and I also love seeing what other people are doing on Midjourney. My biggest takeaway is this: Creation > consumption There’s so much pull towards “consuming” activities– things like watching a show or a movie, or just scrolling. One of the coolest things about tools like Midjourney is that it lowers the barrier to being a creator. Creating is way more fun, more fulfilling and more useful than consuming (like watching a movie or TV show). The iPad and iPhone are all about consuming– passively absorbing content. The computer is more about creating. Whenever you can, aim to create. And it’s never been easier to create with a computer than it is now. Thanks to Midjourney and my friend Chris, I now have a few cool portraits of myself as a board game champion and a college student (and some new knowledge of undergraduate student demographics). A whole lot more than I would have gotten out of a Netflix session. What weird things have you found or made with AI?