After some diversity errors, the ability to build artificial intelligence images of people has been paused
Searching for Black and Native American Women in the Social Media: Google’s AI is an anti-white lunatic, comment on the case for a black woman senator
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The results for the queries included Black and Native American women, as well as a request for a US senator from the 1800s. The first female senator was a white woman in 1922, so Gemini’s AI images were essentially erasing the history of race and gender discrimination.
Correction February 22nd, 6:54AM ET: In the UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area, image generation is not available in English. That explains why testing from the UK failed.
Many right-wing commentators have jumped on the issue to suggest this is further evidence of an anti-white bias among Big Tech, with entrepreneur Mike Solana writing that “Google’s AI is an anti-white lunatic.”
“I think it is just lousy software,” Gary Marcus, an emeritus professor of psychology and neural science at New York University and an AI entrepreneur, wrote on Wednesday on Substack.
The dominant GPT model from Openai is one of the main reasons why this model is so popular, and the new model from the search engine company is a direct competitor. Last week Google rolled out a major update to it with the limited release of Gemini Pro 1.5, which allowed users to handle vast amounts of audio, text, and video input.
Are the open ended prompts of Google racist? Comments on Krawczyk on X’s post on Weak Image Generation for Open End Prompts”
Krawczyk explained the situation further in a post on X: “We design our image generation capabilities to reflect our global user base, and we take representation and bias seriously. We will continue to do this for open ended prompts (images of a person walking a dog are universal!) We will tune to accommodate that because historical contexts are more nuanced.
An anti-woke Crusader online claimed that google was a racist, and that the woke mind virus was to blame.
