Light is the Key Player Black and white images tend to be more challenging to shoot based on the light. With colors, you can distract the audience, but not so much when you remove them.

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.

But as hard as they tried, they could not get a single image where a Black doctor was shown with a white patient. “Out of 150 images of HIV patients, 148 were Black and two were white.