Snake charmers and child brides: Deepa Mehta's<i>Water</i>, ‘exotic’ representation, and the cross‐cultural spectatorship of South Asian migrant cinema

Chaudhuri, Shohini

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“…Participants noted how in T2I images, just as in existing media, "the touristic, Western gaze" is seemingly pandered to. 34 Participants expressed concern that T2I models might be heavily biased toward outsider perspectives on their cultures. P9, from India, described how generated images felt like "tourist's photos" reflecting "flatter versions of South Asia," and amplified what P17, from India, called the "empirical abundance of certain kinds of images [about India]" that map onto global majoritarian views.…”

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AI’s Regimes of Representation: A Community-Centered Study of Text-to-Image Models in South Asia

Qadri,

Shelby,

Bennett

et al. 2024

MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

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This case study presents a community-centered evaluation of South Asian cultural representations in text-toimage (T2I) models. We identify several failure modes and locate them within participants' reporting of their existing experiences of social marginalization. We thus show how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can reproduce an outsiders' gaze for viewing South Asian cultures, shaped by global and regional power inequities.By centering communities as experts and soliciting their perspectives on T2I limitations, our study adds nuance to existing evaluative frameworks, and deepens our understanding of the culturally specific ways in which generative AI technologies can fail in non-Western and Global South settings. We distill lessons for responsible development of T2I models, recommending concrete pathways forward that can allow for recognition of structural inequalities.Listen to an audio version of this case study.

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Section: History and Impact Of Representational Failuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

AI’s Regimes of Representation: A Community-Centered Study of Text-to-Image Models in South Asia

Qadri,

Shelby,

Bennett

et al. 2024

MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

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Postcolonial Feminism

Al-wazedi¹

2020

Companion to Feminist Studies

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If we don't tell our stories, hailstones will continue to fall on our heads Thrown by fathers for the children to see -for we are not good women Thrown by Imams, by a judge's decree -for we are not good wives Thrown by other women in our husbands' lives As they come in the morning cradling his children Calling us witch, barren, bitch And we find something to tie the chest with; Challenging words to hurl back in battle, And partners to hold us anyway, Through the things we struggle against. Abena P. A. Busia, (2010)

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On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland

Bilgrami

2024

Silenced Voices and the Media

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Snake charmers and child brides: Deepa Mehta'sWater, ‘exotic’ representation, and the cross‐cultural spectatorship of South Asian migrant cinema

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

AI’s Regimes of Representation: A Community-Centered Study of Text-to-Image Models in South Asia

AI’s Regimes of Representation: A Community-Centered Study of Text-to-Image Models in South Asia

Postcolonial Feminism

On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland

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