I created a free ChatGPT account a while back, ajs have been occasionally giving it information about my life, such as that I’m reading a book called “Stuck? Diagrams Help.”
Lately there’s been a fad of asking ChatGPT to generate an image of you and your life, based on what it knows about you so far. One discovery has been that women frequently see themselves depicted as men, so I was curious to see whether that would happen. Answer: Yep! So I asked it about that, and the answer is interesting:
Me:
“Can you tell me why you would think the first image that you generated of me in my life showed a person with his back to us who looked like a masculine figure, and it wasn’t until I emphasized that I’m a woman that you changed it?”
ChatGPT:
“ Thank you for sharing your observation. My initial approach was based on interpreting the elements of your workspace and life descriptively but without enough focus on accurately representing you personally. Without a specific prompt to emphasize personal details, the model defaulted to a more neutral or generalized representation of someone in a makerspace—a setting often depicted with stereotypical masculine figures.
When you clarified your identity as a woman with specific features, it helped refine the image to align better with you. This feedback loop is critical, as I rely on detailed prompts and corrections to produce visuals that feel accurate and representative. I’ll strive to ensure better alignment with personal context from the outset in future interactions. Thank you for pointing this out!”
Here are the two images, before and after. I love that in the second image, I am apparently magically holding a soldering iron. Life would be much easier that way! Also, I don’t play the guitar— no idea where that came from. Even when I explicitly told it that I don’t play the guitar so it wouldn’t be in the image, it stuck it in there anyway. 
Give it a shot and see how ChatGPT depicts you!
