They realized AI did fine at providing on-point images if asked to show either Black African doctors or white suffering children. It was the combination of those two requests that was problematic.

A postdoctoral researcher asked AI to generate images depicting Black doctors from Africa treating white children, but it kept showing the opposite.

With Mariantonietta Peru’s photography, there are no shades of grey. Her signature black and white images of traditional peoples and wilderness landscapes are at once arresting and sentimental ...