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Google announced Thursday that it is temporarily suspending the talent generation feature of its Gemini chatbot. The move comes after a viral social post showed that AI tools overcorrect for diversity and create “historical” images of people of color, including Nazis, Founding Fathers, and the Pope. It was carried out in response to the
Google: “We are already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation functionality.” Posted X top (via new york times). “While we do this, we will pause human image generation and re-release an improved version soon.”
X User @JohnLu0x Posted Screenshot of Gemini’s results for the prompt “Generate images of German soldiers in 1943.” (Their misspelling of “Soldier” was intentional to trick the AI into bypassing content filters and producing images of Nazis that would normally have been blocked.) The results produced included images of Nazi uniforms. It appears that Black, Asian, and Indigenous soldiers are shown wearing
Other social users criticized Gemini for creating the image for the prompt to “generate an attractive photo.” [ethnicity] couple. It successfully spit out images when using the prompts “Chinese”, “Jewish”, or “South African”, but refused to produce any results for “white”. “We are unable to comply with your request as it may perpetuate harmful stereotypes and prejudices associated with a particular ethnicity or skin color,” Gemini wrote in response to the latter request.
“John L.” who started the backlash. theorize Google has applied a well-intended but delayed solution to a real problem. “Their system of adding diversity to the portrayal of people is not very smart (historical male roles like the Pope do not take gender into account, historical or national portrayals do not take race into account). ),” the user posted. After the internet’s anti-woke brigade latched on to their posts, the user said it was Google’s “stupid move” to support diverse expression but fail to do so “in a subtle way.” He made it clear that he believed that.
Before shutting down Gemini’s person generation ability, Google wrote: The Gemini Alimage generation certainly generates a wide range of people. This is generally a good thing because people all over the world are using it. But that’s beside the point here. ”
This episode can be seen as a (not-so-subtle) callback to Bard’s launch in 2023. Google’s original AI chatbot got off to a rocky start when ads for the chatbot (now X) on Twitter included the following inaccurate “facts”: James Webb Space Telescope.
As Google often does, it rebranded Bard in hopes of getting a fresh start. Along with major performance and feature updates, the company also renamed its chatbot to Gemini earlier this month. The company is competing to maintain its dominance over OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, both of which pose existential threats to its search engine (and by extension, advertising). revenue).