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Nancy OShea
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Community Expert
April 9, 2025
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Similar Images (Part 3): AI Bias

  • April 9, 2025
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AI has bias towards certain body types, most of it is unrealistic. That said, I'm no expert in this field, as AI is not my main interest.  But if I can see the biases, it's probably widespread.

 

When content creators use the same image diffusion services, there's apt to be a lot of similarity to previously generated images. It might be unconscious to Contributors, but it's there just the same. 

 

I'm using an old painter's trick to illustrate how artists visualize shapes, shadows & highlights. I'm showing you 4 images that were posted by Community Expert @daniellei4510 (thank you, Daniellei).  The first set has blurred details. The second is without blur.  After examining both sets, certain patterns emerge that might give us some insights into why Stock thinks that these images are too similar.

 

The triangles and ellipses were copied & pasted, and then uniformly scaled & tilted to fit the face. 

 

 

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daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2025

Maybe. But that doesn't explain why my 6 images of soap suds were accepted when there are over 300,000 already in the database that look just like mine. And quite frankly, if you were to show me all 300,000 at once, I'd have a touch time recognizing my own, since they all look pretty much alike. My wallpapers are being accepted as well, which I only created and submitted recently to see if they'd be accepted. I mean, they're nice, but not something I'd ordinarily consider submitting, especially under the present circumstances. Then again, one of my images of soap suds has sold twenty-one times, so there's that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
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April 9, 2025

I would argue that soap suds are like breaking beach waves & snowflakes.  Lots & lots of variations.

 

I don't pretend to understand Adobe's "formula" for approving assets.  But I do see a lot of the same facial and body patterns coming from AI.  It's all over social media.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert