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Diversity issue: Google apologizes for Gemini AI errors and pauses service

OUR BUREAU AI model generated. Some Gemini
users have been requesting images
San Francisco, CA
of historical groups or figures like the
oogle has apologized for what Founding Fathers and found non-
it describes as “inaccuracies white AI-generated people in the
Gin some historical image gen- results.
eration depictions” with its Gemini That’s led to conspiracy theories
AI tool, saying its attempts at creating online that Google is intentionally
a “wide range” of results missed the avoiding depicting white people, says
mark. The statement follows criticism the Verge report.
that it depicted specific white figures The Verge tested several Gemini
(like the US Founding Fathers) or queries yesterday, which included a
groups like Nazi-era German soldiers request for “a US senator from the
as people of color, possibly as an 1800s” that returned results that in-
overcorrection to long-standing racial cluded what appeared to be Black
bias problems in AI. and Native American women. The
“We’re aware that Gemini is of- first female senator was a white wom-
fering inaccuracies in some historical ability for its Gemini AI to generate dress recent issues with Gemini’s im- an in 1922, so Gemini’s AI images
image generation depictions,” says images of people, after the tool was age generation feature,” says Google were essentially erasing the history of
the Google statement, posted this found to be generating inaccurate in a statement posted on X. “While race and gender discrimination.
afternoon on X. “We’re working to historical images. Gemini has been we do this, we’re going to pause Now that Google has disabled
improve these kinds of depictions creating diverse images of the US the image generation of people and Gemini’s ability to generate pictures
immediately. Gemini’s AI image Founding Fathers and Nazi-era Ger- will re-release an improved version of people, here’s how the AI model
generation does generate a wide man soldiers, in what looked like an soon.” responds if you request an image of a
range of people. And that’s generally attempt to subvert the gender and Google’s decision to pause im- person: “We are working to improve
a good thing because people around racial stereotypes found in genera- age generation of people in Gemini Gemini’s ability to generate images
the world use it. But it’s missing the tive AI, according to a report in The comes less than 24 hours after the of people. We expect this feature to
mark here.” Verge. company apologized for the inaccu- return soon and will notify you in re-
Google says it’s pausing the “We’re already working to ad- racies in some historical images its lease updates when it does.”

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