Researchers asked AI to illustrate a scenario devoid of global health tropes, without white saviours or powerless ‘victims’. AI, for all its generative power, “proved incapable of avoiding the perpetuation of existing inequality and prejudice [in global health],” the researchers wrote in a paper published in The Lancet Global Health on August 9. Global health publications are notorious for mirroring the racial, gendered and colonial bias in depicting diseases, research shows. al., who found global health images depicted women and children from low- and middle-income countries in an “intrusive” and “out-of-context” setting. If both real and AI-generated global health images fuel stereotypes, people risk being reduced to caricatures borne out of bias.

Source: The Hindu August 15, 2023 20:24 UTC