The funniest story last week was Google’s newly re-launched AI, “Gemini.” Among its new features was an image-creation AI, where with a few words you could instruct it to create pictorial art of any kind you want.
Except no: it wouldn’t create anything you want.
Soon after launch came story after story of the AI censoring requests by delivering inapt images. “‘Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ images of Founding Fathers, popes, Vikings” explained The New York Post. Asked for images of the Founding Fathers, and what was delivered were women and black men dressed up in periwigs. Black popes and P.O.C. Vikings, too. In the case of the featured picture, above, we see a black woman upfront, quill in hand allegedly fathering a founding document, with more white Founding Fathers in the background. Other pictures shared on the Net featured no white men among the Founders. All quite absurd.
But one Gemini failure stands out, above the rest: the unwillingness, the refusal, to present images of the Tiananmen Square protests:
Bridget Phetasy, from whom we first heard the story, responded with “Nutso.”
Other responses are acceptable as well. As long as they are negative.
Google has withdrawn the image-creation service for renovation. Another major Google fail, as well as another tell — yet another indicator that the folks at Google failed in their much-ballyhooed pledge of “Don’t Be Evil.”
NOTE: The search engine used for preparing this article was Freespoke.
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