June 10, 2025

By Louis DiPietro

Ask a large language model (LLM) – a generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology like ChatGPT – what a Muslim man looks like, and it may churn out photos of terrorists. Punch in a request for photos of New Delhi, India’s capital city with rich cultural diversity, and you might get slides of fiery slums. “People with disabilities” might yield images of people with glitchy, dysmorphic faces in wheelchairs – a tell-tale sign that AI is producing images without enough data to draw from.