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Did you observe that common images used in news stories and marketing material about AI are often clichéd and misleading?
A search for “AI images” on search engines or photo libraries shows a striking lack of variety and accuracy. The predominance of sci-fi and anthropomorphized images adds to the public mistrust of AI and makes it hard to communicate accurately about AI. This lack of diversity in AI images may also discourage people from entering the AI workforce, contributing to the AI talent gap. The lack of wider public comprehension of AI technologies, applications, and governance can leave many people in the dark about important changes that impact their lives.
The “Better Images of AI” project aims to create a new repository of better images of AI that anyone can use, starting with a collection of inspirational images. The goal is to inspire users, creators, and commissioners of stock images to think more about what they are communicating and how this can be more authentically, inclusively, and creatively represented. The project will explore what new images might look like and invite people from different creative, technical, and other backgrounds to work together to develop better images. The creators need to consider what makes a good stock image and if it represents a particular part of the technology or if it’s trying to tell a wider story. Although changing the images used to represent AI is not enough to address all harmful cultural assumptions and power asymmetries embedded in AI, the project is hopeful that this effort can contribute to changing things for the better.
Find out more about the problem and have a look at the project’s stunning AI stock images.