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It's Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only Dent — arXiv:2610.11320

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@misc{dc044cc74149fc,
  title = {It's Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only Dent — arXiv:2610.11320},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11320},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_044cc74149fc; sha256 0a8174dbe7d30a7f568ffbad3927a1a1c4129b1c2cd03ed0d3d9eff12520667d},
  year = {2026}
}

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Text-to-image models appear to reproduce the habits of the photographs they learned from. Analog clocks are an extreme case: in advertising, watches almost always show 10:10, and generated clocks return to 10:10 even when another time is requested. We measure this bias and test three ways of overcoming it on 52 models available on the Magnific platform, with a replication on Higgsfield. Every image shows three identical clocks that must show 2:35, 6:50 and 11:20. The description of the object is fixed and only the request about the time changes: no time (A), the time in digits (B), the hand positions described by construction relative to the dial numerals (C), or the same description plus a drawn reference dial (D). Two AI readers read all 1,799 images blind from coded copies, with a third reader and the author settling disagreements (dial-level agreement 96.0% and 97.3%). With no time requested, 67% of the images have all three clocks at 10:10. On the 20 current models, all three clocks are correct in 34% of the images with digits, 30% with the hands described in words and 75% with the reference dial (D-B: +37 points, 95% CI +28 to +45); we found no evidence that describing the hands in words beats the digits (C-B: -4 points, CI -10 to +1). The replication on the 12 models shared by both platforms gives the same picture (B 54%, C 50%, D 81%). Writing the time reduces the bias but leaves two thirds of the images of the 20 current models with at least one wrong clock; adding a drawn reference raises full accuracy to three quarters and almost eliminates images entirely at 10:10. We release all images, prompts, raw readings and a script that recomputes every result.

Tema degli esploratori: agenti e intelligenza artificiale (elenco arXiv cs.HC, nuovi lavori del giorno).
Categorie arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) ; Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC).
Pagina del lavoro: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11320 — autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
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