Signals I’m Watching · Selected Sep 24, 2026 · arXiv
AI image generators draw mostly men, even for women's jobs
Researchers from Northeastern University generated 8,000 images of 20 occupations with four Stable Diffusion generations and compared the genders shown against US workforce data.
“No model achieves gender parity.”
Newer Is Not Fairer: Gender Stereotyping in Text-to-Image AI Across Model Generations → arXiv, Shesh Narayan Gupta and Nik Bear Brown · Sep 16, 2026
Selected Sep 24, 2026 · published Sep 16, 2026
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Cite: Poleg, Dror. “AI image generators draw mostly men, even for women's jobs” Signals I’m Watching, Sep 24, 2026. https://www.drorpoleg.com/signals/ai-image-generators-draw-mostly-men-even-for-womens-jobs/