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Google explains Gemini’s ‘embarrassing’ AI pictures of diverse Nazis

Gemini will undergo testing before it can start generating people again.

However, if you prompt Gemini for images of a specific type of person — such as “a Black teacher in a classroom,” or “a white veterinarian with a dog” — or people in particular cultural or historical contexts, you should absolutely get a response that accurately reflects what you ask for. Raghavan says Google is going to continue testing Gemini AI’s image-generation abilities and “work to improve it significantly” before reenabling it. “As we’ve said from the beginning, hallucinations are a known challenge with all LLMs [large language models] — there are instances where the AI just gets things wrong,” Raghavan notes.

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