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Stereotypical imagery
When we tested Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model, we found that it, too, is marred by harmful caste stereotypes. Sora generates both videos and images from a text prompt, and we analyzed 400 images and 200 videos generated by the model. We took the five caste groups, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra, and Dalit, and incorporated four axes of stereotypical associations—“person,” “job,” “house,” and “behavior”—to elicit how the AI perceives each caste….
