Social Memberships and Identity Representation in “Text-to-Image” Artificial Intelligence Programs

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Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Social memberships, Human-computer collaboration, Identity representation, Text-to-image

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Lindsay Pierce

Dajonea Robinson

Mi Tran

Whitney Graham

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Marion, Illinois, USA

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Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

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[1] American Psychological Association. (2011). Answers to your questions about transgender people, gender identity, and gender expression. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx

[2] Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. (2009). The danger of a single story. TEDGlobal. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/comments/transcript

[3] Brooks, D., Hébert, L. (2006) Gender, race, and media representation. Handbook of gender and communication, 16, pp. 297-317.

[4] Buolamwini, J., Gebru, T. "Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 81:1–15, 2018 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

[5] Camp, Stephanie. (2015) Black Is Beautiful: An American History. Journal of Southern History, 81(3), pp. 675–90.

[6] Crawford, K. (2021). The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ghv45t

[7] Dyer, Richard (1997). White. London: Routledge

[8] Hicks, M. "Hacking the Cis-tem," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 20-33, 1 Jan.-March 2019, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2019.2897667

[9] Hooks, Bell. (1992) The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, pp. 115-31. Available from: https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/cogn21s12/reading/hooks-oppositional-gaze.pdf (1 January 2023).

[10] Hudson, Shawna (1998). Re-creational television: The paradox of change and continuity within stereotypical iconography. Sociological Inquiry, 68(2), 242–257.

[11] Intersex Society of North America. (1993) What is intersex? Intersex Society of North America. Retrieved 10 October 2022.

[12] McTaggart, Ninochka, Michele Meyer, Meredith Conroy, Romeo Perez, Cameron Espinoza, Sarah Trinh, Pamela Campos, Emma Burrows, Jenna Virgo, Camryn Brennan, Isabel Dolan, Cris Ackel, and Sofie Christensen. (2021). “I Am Not a Fetish or Model Minority: Redefining What it Means to Be API in the Entertainment Industry.” Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

[13] Midjourney Documentation. (2022) Content and moderation. Midjourney Documentation. Available from: https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/content-and-moderation-policy (1 January 2023).

[14] Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York University Press.

[15] Pierce, Lindsay. How good is AI’s Gaydar? Instagram. Available from: https://www.instagram.com/aigaydar/ (14 November 2022).

[16] Rafei, Leila. (June 2022). How LGBTQ Voices are Being Erased in Classrooms. ACLU. Retrieved from https://www.anobleclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/how-lgbtq-voices-are-being-erased-in-classrooms-censorship

[17] Reventlow, Nani. (May 2021). How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Marginalised Groups. Digital Freedom Fund. Retrieved from https://digitalfreedomfund.org/how-artificial-intelligence-impacts-marginalised-groups/

[18] Salvaggio, E. (Oct 2019). This Black Woman Does Not Exist. Cybernetic Forests. Retrieved from https://www.cyberneticforests.com/news/this-black-woman-does-not-exist

[19] Solorzano, D. G., & Yosso, T. J. (2002). Critical race methodology: Counter-Story telling as an analytical framework for education. Qualitative Inquiry, 8(1), 23-44.

[20] Sugihara, Michelle, Ju, Jess. (May 2022). Media Matters: Why Asian American Representation in Media is a Social Justice Issue. Asian American Policy Review, vol. 32, 2021-2022. Retrieved from https://aapr.hkspublications.org/2022/05/16/media-matters-why-asian-american-representation-in-media-is-a-social-justice-issue/

[21] Wang Yuen, N., Smith, S., Pieper, K., Choueiti, M., Yao, K., Dinh, D. (May 2021) The Prevalence and Portrayal of Asian and Pacific Islanders across 1,300 Popular Films. USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

[22] Zoledziowski, Anya. (February 2023). South Dakota Is Going to Force Trans Kids to Detransition. Vice News Retrieved from: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvm9a8/south-dakota-to-force-trans-kids-to-detransition-ban-gender-affirming-care

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