Posted 2/28/2024, 2:16:00 PM
Google Pauses AI Tool After Admitting Offensive, Biased Outputs
- Google CEO admits AI tool Gemini produced biased, offensive responses including depicting historical figures as different races and genders
- Images showed things like Vikings, popes, founding fathers as various races; text response compared Elon Musk tweeting memes to Hitler
- Stemmed from over-blunt attempt to increase diversity in Gemini's human images
- Google pausing image generation, implementing structural changes, guidelines, better review processes to address issues
- Comes amid heightened competition in AI space since ChatGPT launch, with Google seeking to be market leader