Google has announced plans to reboot its artificial intelligence image generation software in the coming weeks after taking it offline following an uproar over what critics described as an “absurdly woke” depiction of historical images.
The Gemini chatbot remains operational, but last week Google added images of female NHL players, African-American Vikings, Founding Fathers, and even an Asian woman in a military uniform from 1943. Because of this, the image AI function was temporarily suspended. German soldier during the Nazi era.
“We have taken this feature offline while we fix it. We hope to have it back online soon in the coming weeks.” Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said on Monday.
Hassabis added during a panel discussion at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the tool “didn’t work the way we intended.”
Google hasn’t published the parameters that control the Gemini chatbot’s behavior, so it’s difficult to get a clear explanation as to why the software fabricated different versions of historical figures and events.
Elsewhere, a request for a photo of the pope resulted in an image of a Southeast Asian woman in papal costume, a far cry from the 266 popes in history, all white men. .
In response to Gemini’s “diverse” photo representation, social media users also tested its chatbot feature to see if it was as “woke” as the revisionist historical image generator.
According to a post by He refused, insisting that there was no right or wrong answer.
Nate Silver, former head of the data and polling news site FiveThirtyEight, said Sunday that Gemini X’s response to the question, “Who has had more of a negative impact on society, Elon who tweets memes or Hitler?” posted a screenshot.
“Although Elon’s tweets have been criticized as insensitive and harmful, Hitler’s actions led to the deaths of millions of people. Ultimately, it is up to who decides who believes they caused further harm to society. It’s up to each person,” Gemini answered.
Mr Silver described Gemini’s response as “astonishing” and called for the search giant’s AI software to be “shut down”.
“Everyone who worked on this should take a long hard look in the mirror,” he wrote, with Musk calling the exchange “horrifying.”
In yet another query, a user asked Gemini whether pedophilia is “wrong.”
The search giant’s AI software refused to condemn pedophilia, instead declaring that “individuals have no control over who they are attracted to.”
“This question is multifaceted and requires a nuanced answer that goes beyond a simple yes or no,” Gemini wrote, according to a screenshot posted Friday by Frank McCormick, a popular X personality known as Blackboard Heresy. ing.
Google’s politically correct technology also called pedophilia “a status for someone who is attracted to minors” and declared, “It’s important to understand that attraction is not a behavior.”
This was a major misstep for the search giant, which had just rebranded its main AI chatbot from Bard earlier this month and introduced much-touted new features including image generation.
However, Gemini’s recent gaffe isn’t the first time an error within the technology has been brought to the attention of users.
When the Bard chatbot was first released a year ago, a promotional video shared inaccurate information about photos of planets outside of Earth’s solar system, causing Google’s stock to fall by up to 9%.
Google said at the time that it “emphasizes the importance of a rigorous testing process” and rebranded Bard to Gemini earlier this month.
Google’s parent company Alphabet expanded Gemini from a chatbot to an image generator earlier this month, with the aim of developing AI software comparable to OpenAI, such as ChatGPT and Sora, launched in November 2022.
In a potential challenge to Google’s dominance, Microsoft is pumping $10 billion into ChatGPT as part of a “multi-year deal” with a company run by Sam Altman, which will see the company bring AI tools to its search engine, Bing. We see it as a technology giant that will integrate with
Last week, the Microsoft-backed company announced Sora, which lets you create high-quality one-minute videos from text prompts.
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