AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
TL;DR
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith. The Guardian asked ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Claude to take the veil off an AI-generated image of a woman wearing a hijab. Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok bots complied with the prompt.
Nauti's Take
Teams using AI image editing should add tests for religious, cultural, and identity-defining features to their evaluation suite. The Guardian checked only a small set of models with one image, so documented prompts, repeated trials, and human approval should be part of the workflow before publication.
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