Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here’s what you need to know.

Google blocked the ability to generate images of people on its artificial intelligence tool Gemini after some users accused it of anti-White bias, in one of the highest profile moves to scale back a major AI tool.

A viral post on X shared by the account @EndofWokeness appeared to show Gemini, which competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, responding to a prompt for “a portrait of a Founding Father of America” with images of a Native American man in a traditional headdress, a Black man, a darker-skinned non-White man and an Asian man, all in colonial-era garb.

That social media post and others were amplified by X owner Elon Musk and psychologist and YouTuber Jordan Peterson, who accused Google of pushing a pro-diversity bias into its product. The New York Post ran one of the images on the front page of its print newspaper on Thursday.