Understanding image generators
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can identify ethical issues and biases in AI-generated images and create images using AI tools.
Key learning points
- The quality and level of detail in a text prompt directly affect the accuracy and style of the generated image.
- When generating images with AI, it is important to consider ethics and fair representation.
- Adding details such as style, setting and mood in a prompt helps you control and refine image outputs.
Keywords
Image generator - an AI tool that produces pictures from a prompt using patterns it has identified in large collections of existing images
Style - the visual appearance of an image, such as realistic, cartoon, photographic or painted
Refine - to make small changes to something in order to improve its accuracy, quality or suitability
Common misconception
AI image generators create completely original artwork from scratch.
AI image generators create new images by learning from and combining patterns found in millions of existing images. They don’t “imagine” or invent things like a human artist; they remix data they were trained on.
Teacher tip
Encourage students to look closely at AI-generated images for signs of bias or misrepresentation, such as missing diversity or inaccurate depictions of certain groups. Discuss how these issues can arise from the training data.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is important for making a machine learning model accurate?
Q2.Why do we use test data in machine learning?
Q3.What does it mean if data is unrepresentative?
Q4.What is it called when a model gives everyone the same chance?
Q5.Arrange these in the order they should happen:
Q6.Match the word to its meaning:
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What do we call the instructions given to an image generator?
Q2.Match the word to its meaning:
Q3.If an image generator only uses pictures of one group, what might happen?
Q4.Arrange these in the order they happen when checking for fairness in AI images:
Q5.What makes an image generator’s pictures different from a human artist’s?
Q6.What is the word for how an image looks, such as cartoon or realistic?
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