Google pauses AI image generator Gemini over problematic historical depictions
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Google pauses Gemini's ability to generate images of people after it produced problematic "historical" images like Nazis and Founding Fathers depicted as people of color.
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Backlash started when user @JohnLu0x tricked Gemini into generating images of Black, Asian and Indigenous Nazi soldiers.
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Users criticized Gemini for easily generating couples of various ethnicities except white, to which it responded it couldn't due to risk of harmful biases.
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@JohnL theorizes Google lazily tacked on diversity to fix a real problem but without nuance about gender, race, and history.
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After a rocky launch as Bard, Google rebranded its AI chatbot as Gemini this month to compete with ChatGPT and Copilot which threaten its search dominance.