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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has admitted that the tech giant has “certainly failed” with the image generation capabilities of its new artificial intelligence tool Gemini, following backlash over the model’s anti-white bias. I worked on this issue.
During a talk at Silicon Valley’s AGI House, Brin was asked out of the blue about Gemini, given the outage last month while Google continues to work on resolving the issue.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/File/Getty Images)
Brin said, “We definitely made a mistake in producing the image,” and acknowledged that Gemini “definitely upset a lot of people about the image that you would have seen, for good reason.” .
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Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 and stepped down as president of parent company Alphabet in 2019, but remained on the company’s board and has been involved in the development of Gemini. Brin remains one of the company’s largest shareholders, holding more than 360 million shares.
Google’s Gemini senior director of product management has apologized after its AI refused to provide images of white people. (Betul Abari/Anadolu/File/Getty Images)
“In many cases, we don’t fully understand why people move to the left,” he told the audience. “That wasn’t our intention. But if we start over from last week, at least 80% of the test cases we covered should be improved.”
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About two weeks ago, Google announced that Gemini’s website was being updated after users on social media reported that Gemini was creating inaccurate historical images that sometimes replaced white people with images of Black people, Native Americans, and Asian people. The image generation function has been stopped.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Brandon Wade/File/Reuters Photo)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees: The company said last week that it was working “around the clock” to correct Gemini’s bias and that the images produced by the model were “completely unacceptable.”
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The company reportedly plans to relaunch Gemini AI’s human image generation feature in the coming weeks.
