A new AI study out Wednesday in the journal Nature from the University of California, Berkeley found that women are systematically presented as younger than men online and and by artificial intelligence—based on an analysis of 1.4 million online images and videos, plus nine large language models trained on billions of words.

Researchers looked at content from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr, and YouTube, and major large language models including GPT2, and found women consistently appeared younger than men—across 3,495 occupational and social categories. (Note: It’s possible that filters on videos and women’s makeup may be adding to this age-related gender bias in visual content.)

Study data showed not only are women asystematically portrayed as younger than men across online platforms, b

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