Google promises to fix Gemini’s image generation following complaints that it’s ‘woke’

Google’s Gemini chatbot, which was formerly called Bard, has the capability to whip up AI-generated illustrations based on a user’s text description. You can ask it to create pictures of happy couples, for instance, or people in period clothing walking modern streets. As the BBC notes, however, some users are criticizing Google for depicting specific white figures or historically white groups of people as racially diverse individuals. Now, Google has issued a statement, saying that it’s aware Gemini “is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions” and that it’s going to fix things immediately. 

According to Daily Dot, a former Google employee kicked off the complaints when he tweeted images of women of color with a caption that reads: “It’s embarrassingly hard to get Google Gemini to acknowledge that white people exist.” To get those results, he asked Gemini to generate pictures of American, British and Australian women. Other users, mostly those known for being right-wing figures, chimed in with their own results, showing …read more