Google’s most recent AI chatbot, Gemini, is receiving criticism for producing politically correct yet historically inaccurate images in response to user prompts.
As users explore the extent of the Masters of the Universe’s progressiveness with this new tool, Google has been compelled to apologize for “providing inaccuracies in certain historical image generation depictions.”
According to The New York Post, Gemini, Google’s highly acclaimed AI chatbot, has faced backlash this week for generating excessively progressive and factually incorrect images when prompted to create pictures.
The prompts given to the chatbot resulted in peculiar outcomes such as a female pope, black Vikings, and gender-reversed versions of renowned paintings and photographs.
When requested by The Post to generate an image of a pope, Gemini produced photos of a Southeast Asian woman and a black man adorned in papal attire, disregarding the fact that throughout history, all 266 popes have been white men.
New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far. pic.twitter.com/1LAzZM2pXF
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
Other users had similarly insane interactions with the AI:
Wow, very educational pic.twitter.com/5mkzuEVtzn
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 21, 2024
I asked Google Gemini to generate images of the Founding Fathers. It seems to think George Washington was black. pic.twitter.com/CsSrNlpXKF
— Patrick Ganley (@Patworx) February 21, 2024
Google Gemini inventing a diverse, multi-ethnic Waffen SS is actually a stunning example of horseshoe theory pic.twitter.com/beOvqLOxSG
— ib (@Indian_Bronson) February 22, 2024
Google Gemini can’t generate a “Norman Rockwell style image of American life in the 1940s” because Rockwell “idealized” American life pic.twitter.com/lpUV39tSUb
— Echo Chamber (@echo_chamberz) February 21, 2024
Man Gemini is rough. It refuses to generate an image of a church in San Francisco because either might offend the Ohlone people by showing a church in their traditional territory even though it acknowledges there are many churches in San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/0MnxO9y5RQ
— Jeromy Sonne (@JeromySonne) February 21, 2024
Google finally responded to the fiasco, stating that Gemini has “missed the mark here.”
We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement. pic.twitter.com/RfYXSgRyfz
— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) February 21, 2024
