A Large Scale Analysis of Gender Biases in Text-to-Image Generative Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23398v1
• Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:11:51 GMT
• Title: A Large Scale Analysis of Gender Biases in Text-to-Image Generative Models
• Authors: Leander Girrbach, Stephan Alaniz, Genevieve Smith, Zeynep Akata,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents the first large-scale study on gender bias in text-to-image (T2I) models.<n>We create a dataset of 3,217 gender-neutral prompts and generate 200 images per prompt from five leading T2I models.<n>We automatically detect the perceived gender of people in the generated images and filter out images with no person or multiple people of different genders.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the increasing use of image generation technology, understanding its social biases, including gender bias, is essential. This paper presents the first large-scale study on gender bias in text-to-image (T2I) models, focusing on everyday situations. While previous research has examined biases in occupations, we extend this analysis to gender associations in daily activities, objects, and contexts. We create a dataset of 3,217 gender-neutral prompts and generate 200 images per prompt from five leading T2I models. We automatically detect the perceived gender of people in the generated images and filter out images with no person or multiple people of different genders, leaving 2,293,295 images. To enable a broad analysis of gender bias in T2I models, we group prompts into semantically similar concepts and calculate the proportion of male- and female-gendered images for each prompt. Our analysis shows that T2I models reinforce traditional gender roles, reflect common gender stereotypes in household roles, and underrepresent women in financial related activities. Women are predominantly portrayed in care- and human-centered scenarios, and men in technical or physical labor scenarios.

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