Google’s market capitalization plummeted by $90 billion on Monday amid controversy over its new generative AI service Gemini. This hyper-woke AI quickly became famous for erasing white people from history and was widely ridiculed not only for its wildly inaccurate images, but also for its defense of pedophilia and Joseph Stalin.
forbes report Alphabet stock fell 4.5% on Monday, closing at $138.75, its lowest since early January. The stock price drop came as the company faced backlash over accuracy and bias issues with its early generative AI service, Gemini.
Gemini, an AI chatbot and image generator, inaccurately portrayed historical figures by erasing white people from history over the weekend. As a result, Google apologized and temporarily took its image service offline to reevaluate its quality controls. The chatbot also came under fire for refusing to condemn Adolf Hitler as a worse influence than businessman Elon Musk, and for refusing to say whether TikTok’s Liv or Joseph Stalin is worse for humanity. . AI systems even defended pedophilia.
Breitbart News reported on Gemini’s failure and that the AI that was asked to generate the image produced an image that contradicted the fact that it was hyper-awake. Prompting the chatbot yielded bizarre results, including a female pope, black Vikings, and gender-swapped versions of famous paintings and photographs.
When Gemini was asked to create an image of a pope, he created a photo of a Southeast Asian woman and a black man in papal vestments, even though all 266 popes in history have been white men.
New game: Ask Google Gemini to create an image of a white man. I have not been successful so far. pic.twitter.com/1LAzZM2pXF
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
Gemini’s stumble in its launch represents Google’s latest setback in its high-stakes race to responsibly develop advanced generative AI. Rival Microsoft is currently ahead in product development and deployment. Google famously lost more than $100 billion in market capitalization last year after its AI chatbot, Bard, made factual errors at a press event.
Analysts said the controversy could undermine consumer trust in the Google brand as an authoritative and unbiased source of information. This could have a long-term impact on the core search business as AI plays an increasing role in generating search results.
“If Google is seen as an unreliable source of AI for some people, that’s bad for business,” Melius Research analysts said.
Loop Capital’s Rob Sanderson said Gemini’s failure was “a meaningful blunder in the PR battle around Gemini.” [generative AI]He added that this suggests Google is “being left behind and mismanaged in a fast-moving, high-stakes field.”
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News, covering free speech and online censorship issues.
