Google Blocks AI Image Generator Over Concerns of Racial Bias
• Google blocked its AI image generator Gemini from generating images of people after claims it was biased against white people
• Critics accused Gemini of pushing a pro-diversity bias by generating non-white historical figures like Vikings and Founding Fathers
• The issues could be caused by Google intervening to prioritize diversity after model training, rather than addressing data biases from the start
• AI models reflect stereotypes from their training data, which is largely US/Europe-centric and contains many discriminatory images
• Some examples cited as inaccurate, like a black pope, are not necessarily unrealistic given historical evidence of diversity