Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias
Societies reward people judged to be attractive by standards intertwined with gender and race. In this paper, we examine if and how generative AI may contribute to these dynamics. We audited 27 text-to-image generators released between 2022 and 2026 using simple prompts that never mention attractiveness or beauty, analyzing 51,300 generated faces and 160,196 photographs of real people across primary and supplementary comparisons. We used three automated measures and collected ratings from 550 human raters on a subset of images. Nearly all generators produced faces scoring above photographed faces under automated measures, and human raters judged the outputs of all 23 generators as signifi...
| Authors | AJ Alvero, Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Alexandra Crespin et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 15 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 October 2026 |
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