The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation

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Main Authors: Magomere, Jabez, Ishida, Shu, Afonja, Tejumade, Salama, Aya, Kochin, Daniel, Yuehgoh, Foutse, Hamzaoui, Imane, Sefala, Raesetje, Alaagib, Aisha, Dalal, Samantha, Marchegiani, Beatrice, Semenova, Elizaveta, Crais, Lauren, Hall, Siobhan Mackenzie
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author Magomere, Jabez
Ishida, Shu
Afonja, Tejumade
Salama, Aya
Kochin, Daniel
Yuehgoh, Foutse
Hamzaoui, Imane
Sefala, Raesetje
Alaagib, Aisha
Dalal, Samantha
Marchegiani, Beatrice
Semenova, Elizaveta
Crais, Lauren
Hall, Siobhan Mackenzie
author_facet Magomere, Jabez
Ishida, Shu
Afonja, Tejumade
Salama, Aya
Kochin, Daniel
Yuehgoh, Foutse
Hamzaoui, Imane
Sefala, Raesetje
Alaagib, Aisha
Dalal, Samantha
Marchegiani, Beatrice
Semenova, Elizaveta
Crais, Lauren
Hall, Siobhan Mackenzie
contents We introduce the World Wide recipe, which sets forth a framework for culturally aware and participatory data collection, and the resultant regionally diverse World Wide Dishes evaluation dataset. We also analyse bias operationalisation to highlight how current systems underperform across several dimensions: (in-)accuracy, (mis-)representation, and cultural (in-)sensitivity, with evidence from qualitative community-based observations and quantitative automated tools. We find that these T2I models generally do not produce quality outputs of dishes specific to various regions. This is true even for the US, which is typically considered more well-resourced in training data -- although the generation of US dishes does outperform that of the investigated African countries. The models demonstrate the propensity to produce inaccurate and culturally misrepresentative, flattening, and insensitive outputs. These representational biases have the potential to further reinforce stereotypes and disproportionately contribute to erasure based on region. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/oxai/world-wide-dishes.
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spellingShingle The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation
Magomere, Jabez
Ishida, Shu
Afonja, Tejumade
Salama, Aya
Kochin, Daniel
Yuehgoh, Foutse
Hamzaoui, Imane
Sefala, Raesetje
Alaagib, Aisha
Dalal, Samantha
Marchegiani, Beatrice
Semenova, Elizaveta
Crais, Lauren
Hall, Siobhan Mackenzie
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
We introduce the World Wide recipe, which sets forth a framework for culturally aware and participatory data collection, and the resultant regionally diverse World Wide Dishes evaluation dataset. We also analyse bias operationalisation to highlight how current systems underperform across several dimensions: (in-)accuracy, (mis-)representation, and cultural (in-)sensitivity, with evidence from qualitative community-based observations and quantitative automated tools. We find that these T2I models generally do not produce quality outputs of dishes specific to various regions. This is true even for the US, which is typically considered more well-resourced in training data -- although the generation of US dishes does outperform that of the investigated African countries. The models demonstrate the propensity to produce inaccurate and culturally misrepresentative, flattening, and insensitive outputs. These representational biases have the potential to further reinforce stereotypes and disproportionately contribute to erasure based on region. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/oxai/world-wide-dishes.
title The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09496