Why this tool is reducing Asian influence in AI-generated art

Vhey Preexa, an artificial intelligence artist who uses the name “Zovya” online, noticed a pattern while trying to create an AI-powered tool that produces digital images of South American people and culture.

In many of the resulting photos of South America, made with the deep-learning model from the open source AI-art generator Stable Diffusion, Asian faces and Asian architecture would randomly appear, Preexa said.

To offset what she perceived as the overuse of Asian features and culture in AI models, Preexa, who is Serbian but lives in the U.S., developed a new tool, “Style Asian Less,” to weed out the unprompted influence of Asian and Japanese animation in generated images.