{"id":10035,"date":"2025-04-11T07:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:51:40","slug":"image-generators-from-an-ethical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=10035","title":{"rendered":"Image Generators from an Ethical Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8222;Image Synthesis from an Ethical Perspective&#8220; by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel was published as an electronic version in the journal AI &amp; SOCIETY on September 27, 2023. It addresses the ethical implications of image generators, i.e., a specific form of generative AI. It can now also be found in the current print edition from February 2025 (Volume 40, Issue 2). From the abstract: &#8222;Generative AI has gained a lot of attention in society, business, and science. This trend has increased since 2018, and the big breakthrough came in 2022. In particular, AI-based text and image generators are now widely used. This raises a variety of ethical issues. The present paper first gives an introduction to generative AI and then to applied ethics in this context. Three specific image generators are presented: DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. The author goes into technical details and basic principles, and compares their similarities and differences. This is followed by an ethical discussion. The paper addresses not only risks, but opportunities for generative AI. A summary with an outlook rounds off the article.&#8220; A lot has happened with image generators since 2023. The new one from OpenAI now also allows photorealistic images, and it has fewer problems with average-looking people &#8211; DALL-E 2 and 3 favored beauty over mediocrity and ugliness. The article can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00146-023-01780-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00146-023-01780-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AeI_Generated_Astronaut.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AeI_Generated_Astronaut.png 800w, https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AeI_Generated_Astronaut-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AeI_Generated_Astronaut-768x724.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fig.: An AI-generated astronaut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8222;Image Synthesis from an Ethical Perspective&#8220; by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel was published as an electronic version in the journal AI &amp; SOCIETY on September 27, 2023. It addresses the ethical implications of image generators, i.e., a specific form of generative AI. It can now also be found in the current print edition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=10035\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eImage Generators from an Ethical Perspective\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1629,1129],"tags":[1632,1529,1417,1630,1631,1633,1482],"class_list":["post-10035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generative-ki","category-ki-ethik","tag-dall-e-3","tag-genai","tag-generative-ai","tag-image-generators","tag-image-synthesis","tag-midjourney","tag-openai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Image Generators from an Ethical Perspective - maschinenethik.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=10035\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Image Generators from an Ethical Perspective - maschinenethik.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The article &#8222;Image Synthesis from an Ethical Perspective&#8220; by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel was published as an electronic version in the journal AI &amp; SOCIETY on September 27, 2023. 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