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Google’s ‘Woke’ Image Generator Shows the Limitations of AI
Google has hit pause on Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after a far-right backlash to its historical depictions.
Google has admitted that its Gemini AI model “missed the mark” after a flurry of criticism about what many perceived as “anti-white bias.” Numerous users reported that the system was producing images of people of diverse ethnicities and genders even when it was historically inaccurate to do so. “We’re working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately,” Jack Krawczyk, a senior director of product management at Google’s Gemini Experiences, told WIRED in an emailed statement. But the issues Gemini produced were quickly leveraged by anti-woke crusaders online, who claimed variously that Google was “racist” or “infected with the woke mind virus.”
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