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The Morning After: Why Google's Gemini image generation feature overcorrected for diversity


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In Engadget’s tests, asking Gemini to create illustrations of the Founding Fathers resulted in images of white men with a single person of color or woman among them. When we asked the chatbot to generate images of popes through the ages, we got photos depicting Black women and Native Americans as the leader of the Catholic Church. Raghavan said Google didn’t intend for Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group or to generate historically inaccurate photos.

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