Google Pausing Gemini Image Generation After Bias Complaints
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Google paused the image generation feature on its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool after complaints that it created historically inaccurate images while trying to promote diversity.
The Details: One thread with over 22 million views on X details numerous examples of Gemini purportedly creating images of racially diverse people when prompted to generate images of historically white groups, such as soldiers of the American Revolution or the Founding Fathers. The AllSides team was unable to replicate those specific examples, though it's likely that different users were shown different results.
Key Quotes: Google said its software is "missing the mark here" and that the company is "working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately," with an "improved" version set to release soon.
For Context: AllSides has found that Google's tools have grown more polarized and more favorable to the political left in recent years.
How the Media Covered It: Right-rated sources covered the news more prominently than left-rated sources did. Fox Business (Lean Right bias) said Gemini's pause was becase "the model refused to create images of White people." The Verge (Lean Left) said "it's plausible that Gemini has made an overall attempt to boost diversity because of a chronic lack of it in generative AI," but that the tech "ends up erasing a real history of race and gender discrimination."
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From the Right
Google to pause Gemini image generation after AI refuses to show images of White people
Google will pause the image generation feature of its artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Gemini, after the model refused to create images of White people, Reuters reported.
The Alphabet-owned company apologized Wednesday after users on social media flagged that Gemini's image generator was creating inaccurate historical images that sometimes replaced White people with images of Black, Native American and Asian people.
"We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions," Google had said on Wednesday.
From the Left
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
Google has apologized for what it describes as “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions” with its Gemini AI tool, saying its attempts at creating a “wide range” of results missed the mark. The statement follows criticism that it depicted specific white figures (like the US Founding Fathers) or groups like Nazi-era German soldiers as people of color, possibly as an overcorrection to long-standing racial bias problems in AI.
“We’re aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions,” says the Google statement, posted this afternoon on X. “We’re working to improve...
From the Center
Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures
Google on Thursday announced it is pausing its Gemini artificial intelligence image generation feature after saying it offers “inaccuracies” in historical pictures.
Users on social media had been complaining that the AI tool generates images of historical figures — like the U.S. Founding Fathers — as people of color, calling this inaccurate.
Google said in a post on X on Wednesday that the AI feature can “generate a wide range of people. And that’s generally a good thing because people around the world use it.” But it said that the software...
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