Making AI work for women, by Nilanjana Bhowmick.
Recently, I wanted an image generated by artificial intelligence (AI) to illustrate a LinkedIn post on leadership. I entered a prompt into popular AI platform ChatGPT and it generated a few images of male leaders. I tried a few different versions but every prompt on leadership frustratingly returned images of men until I specifically asked for it to generate one of a woman.
But there was a catch here, too.
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