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Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability
A WIRED investigation found that OpenAI's video generation model, Sora, exhibits representational bias across race, gender, body type, and disability. In tests using 250 prompts, Sora was more likely to depict CEOs and professors as men, flight attendants and childcare workers as women, and showed limited or stereotypical portrayals of disabled individuals and people with larger bodies.
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2025-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2025-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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