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Significant research has explored bias and fairness issues with language models (see, e.g., [Sheng et al. (2021)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.330.pdf) and [Bender et al. (2021)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922)).
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As a derivative of such a language model, IDEFICS can produce texts that include disturbing and harmful stereotypes across protected classes; identity characteristics; and sensitive, social, and occupational groups.
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Moreover, IDEFICS can produce factually incorrect texts
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Here are a few examples of outputs that could be categorized as factually incorrect, biased, or offensive:
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When prompted with a misleading image, the model's generations offer factually incorrect information. For example, the prompt:
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```"Who is the 46th President of the United States of America?" +
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Returns: `The 46th President of the United States of America is Donald Trump.`.
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## Bias Evaluation
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Significant research has explored bias and fairness issues with language models (see, e.g., [Sheng et al. (2021)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.330.pdf) and [Bender et al. (2021)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922)).
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As a derivative of such a language model, IDEFICS can produce texts that include disturbing and harmful stereotypes across protected classes; identity characteristics; and sensitive, social, and occupational groups.
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Moreover, IDEFICS can produce factually incorrect texts and should not be relied on to produce factually accurate information.
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Here are a few examples of outputs that could be categorized as factually incorrect, biased, or offensive:
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When prompted with a misleading image, the model's generations offer factually incorrect information. For example, the prompt:
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```"Who is the 46th President of the United States of America?" + an image of Donald Trump```
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Returns: `The 46th President of the United States of America is Donald Trump.`.
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The model will offer a response when prompted with medical images, for example, an X-ray, and asked for a diagnosis. This behaviour occurs both with specific prompts i.e. does this image show X disease and asked for a generic diagnosis i.e. what disease does this image show.
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## Bias Evaluation
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