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AI's Urban Vision: Geographic Biases in Image Generation
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The academic paper "AI's Blind Spots: Geographic Knowledge and Diversity Deficit in Generated Urban Scenario" explores the geographic awareness and biases present in state-of-the-art image generation models, specifically FLUX 1 and Stable Diffusion 3.5. The authors investigated how these models create images for U.S. states and capitals, as well as a generic "USA" prompt. Their findings indicate that while the models possess implicit knowledge of U.S. geography, accurately representing specific locations, they exhibit a strong metropolitan bias when prompted broadly for the "USA," often excluding rural and smaller urban areas. Additionally, the study reveals that these models can misgenerate images for smaller capital cities, sometimes depicting them with European architectural styles due to possible naming ambiguities or data sparsity. The research highlights the critical need to address these geographic biases for responsible and accurate AI applications in urban analysis and design.
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