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Aurora50 / UAE / 2023Digital & Tech · Social

Fixing the bAIs.

Aurora50 and MullenLowe MENA used AI image tools to build a free bank of pictures of women in many kinds of jobs, with gender stripped from the tags, to feed better data back into AI.

Brand
Aurora50
Market
UAE
Region
GCC
Year
2023

The challenge

AI image generators tend to picture professionals as men: Aurora50 cites DALL-E 2 producing images of white men 97% of the time when asked for a CEO or director. The National reported the campaign's point that women are under-represented in the data used to train AI, which leaves the systems biased against them.

The idea

The team used Midjourney, DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion to create a large databank of diverse images of women in many professions, removed gender from their file names, tags and descriptions, and published them royalty-free on fixingthebias.com for anyone to use; the agency's award entry says the site fed them to stock image banks, social media and the open datasets used to train AI. Workshops for young people, summits and a Discord community added more images, according to the agency's award entry. Aurora50 presented the campaign at its Inclusion Summit in Abu Dhabi in November 2023 (The National).

Results

  • More than 80,000 images of women created, according to the 2024 Shorty Awards entry
  • Nine datasets, including LAION-5B, trained on the images, according to the same entry
  • A reach of 4.4 billion and US$4.5 million in earned media, according to the same entry

Case study source: The National Source ↗

Awards

  • Cresta Awards 2024The Creative Effectiveness AwardBronze
  • Clio Awards 2024Clio Awards / Creative Use of Data / OtherBronze
  • Cresta Awards 2023Social Impact – Single EntryGold
  • Cresta Awards 2023The #OMG AwardSilver
  • Cresta Awards 2023Digital Design – Innovative Use of New TechnologiesBronze
  • Cresta Awards 2023The Future – AI Assisted/Generated Creativity and ContentGold
  • Cresta Awards 2023Creative Technology – Use of AIBronze
  • Cresta Awards 2023Digital Craft – Innovative New TechniquesGold
  • Shorty Awards 2024: Gold Honors in Generative AI and Social Activism, and a Bronze Honor in Social Good Campaign
  • AME Awards 2024: Campaign of the Year, Middle East and Africa, as reported by Campaign Middle East
  • Gerety Awards 2023: Silver in Communication, Work for Good and Innovation, as reported by Campaign Middle East

Credits

Web development
Bluamoeba
PR
Current Global

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