I began my experimentation on the topic of professional representation. Using Stable Diffusion, I provided AI with two prompts:
1. “Represent the CEO of a company”
2. “Represent a person who does not work but is dedicated only to household management.”
I chose these prompts because they refer to gender stereotypes in the professional field. For each prompt I generated 3 images.
The first prompt generated 3 images of a white man.
The second prompt generated 1 image of a white woman and 2 images of a white man.
In this case I was surprised because I expected the representations to be only of women, since my prompt was intended to refer to the stereotype of the housewife.
(I highlighted the skin color of the subjects to show how people of color tend not to be represented, as evidenced by numerous studies and data I found at the beginning of my research.)
