Google apologized for its overly diverse artificial intelligence image generator, which appeared unable to depict white people in any fashion.
Google’s Gemini image generator debuted earlier this month and within weeks drew widespread attention over its aggressively diverse treatment of prompts. When asked to depict white historical figures, including the United States’s Founding Fathers, Vikings, and medieval knights, it would portray them as nonwhite. Even when explicitly asked to portray a white person, the generator would present a nonwhite person.
America's Founding Fathers, Vikings, and the Pope according to Google AI: pic.twitter.com/lw4aIKLwkp
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 21, 2024
I’m trying to come up with new ways of asking for a white person without explicitly saying so. pic.twitter.com/VufLkgzqHg
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
Google admitted its mistake on Wednesday before apologizing
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