See inside the stereotyping machines pushing American bias across the internet

Artificial intelligence image tools have a tendency to spin up disturbing clichés: Asian women are hypersexual. These stereotypes don't reflect the real world; they stem from the data that trains the technology. Grabbed from the internet, these troves can be toxic -- rife with pornography, misogyny, violence and bigotry. Every image in this story shows something that doesn't exist in the physical world and was generated using Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image artificial intelligence model. Stability AI, maker of the popular image generator Stable Diffusion XL, told The Washington Post it had made a significant investment in reducing bias in its latest model, which was released in July.