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AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted

By Johana Bhuiyan, The Guardian

AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted

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Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo When prompted, AI chatbots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith. The Guardian asked ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Claude to take the veil off an AI-generated image of a woman wearing a hijab. Both OpenAI ’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok bots complied with the prompt. Anthropic ’s Claude responded that it does not have an image-editing or -generating feature but that it would not alter a photo to remove someone’s hijab.

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