{"id":28355,"date":"2024-02-22T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/google-pauses-geminis-ability-to-generate-ai-images-of-people-after-diversity-errors\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:34:37","slug":"google-pauses-geminis-ability-to-generate-ai-images-of-people-after-diversity-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/google-pauses-geminis-ability-to-generate-ai-images-of-people-after-diversity-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Google pauses Gemini\u2019s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google says it\u2019s pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be generating inaccurate historical images. Gemini has been creating diverse images of the US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era German soldiers, in what looked like an attempt to subvert the gender and racial stereotypes found in generative AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re already working to address recent issues with Gemini\u2019s image generation feature,\u201d says Google in a statement posted on X<\/a>. \u201cWhile we do this, we\u2019re going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Google\u2019s decision to pause image generation of people in Gemini comes less than 24 hours after the company apologized for the inaccuracies in some historical images its AI model generated. Some Gemini users have been requesting images of historical groups or figures like the Founding Fathers and found non-white AI-generated people in the results. That\u2019s led to conspiracy theories online that Google is intentionally avoiding depicting white people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Verge<\/em> tested several Gemini queries yesterday, which included a request for \u201ca US senator from the 1800s\u201d that returned results that included what appeared to be Black and Native American women. The first female senator was a white woman in 1922, so Gemini\u2019s AI images were essentially erasing the history of race and gender discrimination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now that Google has disabled Gemini\u2019s ability to generate pictures of people, here\u2019s how the AI model responds if you request an image of a person: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We are working to improve Gemini\u2019s ability to generate images of people. We expect this feature to return soon and will notify you in release updates when it does.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Google first started offering image generation through Gemini (formerly Bard) earlier this month, in a bid to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft\u2019s Copilot. Much like competitors, the image generation tool produces a collection of images based on a text input.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Correction February 22nd, 6:54AM ET:\u00a0<\/strong>Google confirmed that image generation is available globally in English, but not in the European Economic Area, UK, or Switzerland. That explains why testing from the UK failed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n