Google CEO Addresses Controversy Over AI Image Generator
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed controversy around Gemini AI generating misleading and inaccurate images, calling it "completely unacceptable" in an internal note.
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Pichai said teams are working to address issues and have seen "substantial improvement," but did not provide specifics.
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The note promises structural changes, refreshed guidelines, technical recommendations, better evaluations, and vulnerability testing to resolve problems.
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Pichai wrote Google aims to give users "helpful, accurate and unbiased information," saying this must be the approach for all products including AI.
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Controversy emerged when users generated historically inaccurate images like Black vikings and racially diverse Nazi soldiers, prompting criticism and a $90 billion selloff in Google's stock.