Why Google’s AI tool was slammed for showing images of people of colour
1 year ago

Why Google’s AI tool was slammed for showing images of people of colour

Al Jazeera  

America’s founding fathers depicted as Black women and Ancient Greek warriors as Asian women and men – this was the world reimagined by Google’s generative AI tool, Gemini, in late February. The tool works with “text, images, audio and more at the same time”, explained a blog written by Pichai and Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of British American AI lab Google DeepMind. Google possibly used these techniques because the team behind Gemini understood that defaulting to historical biases “would result in massive public pushback”, Mitchell wrote in an X post. It added: “It’s crucial to approach this topic with nuance and consider various perspectives.” This caused outrage among Modi’s supporters, and junior information technology minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar deemed Gemini’s response malicious.

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Here's what Sundar Pichai said on Gemini AI inaccurate image generation
10 months, 1 week ago

Here's what Sundar Pichai said on Gemini AI inaccurate image generation

India TV News  

Google recently introduced a new image generation feature on its chatbot, Gemini, which could create images of people. During an interview with Bloomberg, Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, admitted that the company had made a mistake earlier this year when it generated racially biased results in response to user queries. The company had quickly paused Gemini's image-generating feature after social media …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reacts to Gemini image generation controversy, says we got it wrong
10 months, 1 week ago

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reacts to Gemini image generation controversy, says we got it wrong

India Today  

Ever since ChatGPT launched in 2022, various companies entered in an AI race of sorts and rolled out their own AI products and services. However earlier this year, the AI tool faced criticism for being "too woke" due to its recently-launched image generation feature. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had earlier called the mistake "unacceptable" in a memo to employees. Pichai …

Gemini’s racial images are warning of tech titans’ power to ‘influence’ views
1 year ago

Gemini’s racial images are warning of tech titans’ power to ‘influence’ views

The Hindu  

For people at the trend-setting tech festival in Texas,U.S., the scandal that erupted after Google’s Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence can give tech titans. Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month slammed “completely unacceptable” errors by his company’s Gemini AI app after gaffes such as …

Man in bizarre ‘naked woman’ shirt attends hackathon where Sergei Brin admitted fault with Gemini AI
1 year ago

Man in bizarre ‘naked woman’ shirt attends hackathon where Sergei Brin admitted fault with Gemini AI

Op India  

Weeks after Google faced massive outrage after its newly launched Gemini AI refused to acknowledge the existence of white people, the company’s co-founder Sergey Brin has admitted that the company messed up in the matter. Addressing the Gemini Hackathon at AGI House in San Francisco on 3 March, Sergey Brin said that the AI platform was premature and it was …

Black Nazis and a Willy Wonka that traumatises children: Google’s AI problem should worry us all
1 year ago

Black Nazis and a Willy Wonka that traumatises children: Google’s AI problem should worry us all

The Independent  

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Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's AI image results "offended our users"
1 year ago

Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's AI image results "offended our users"

NPR  

Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's AI image results "offended our users" Enlarge this image toggle caption Eric Risberg/AP Eric Risberg/AP Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an internal memo late Tuesday that the company's release of artificial intelligence tool Gemini has been unacceptable, pledging to fix and relaunch the service in the coming weeks. Last week, Google paused Gemini's …

Google Plans To Relaunch Gemini AI Image Tool Following Cases Of Inaccuracies
1 year ago

Google Plans To Relaunch Gemini AI Image Tool Following Cases Of Inaccuracies

ABP News  

In a recent announcement, Google's CEO Demis Hassabis revealed plans for the relaunch of its AI image generation tool within the upcoming weeks. This decision comes after the tool was temporarily suspended due to inaccuracies detected in historical depictions generated by Google's Gemini AI models. Following the initial rollout of image generation capabilities through Gemini AI earlier this month, concerns …

Google Gemini's image generation feature: What went wrong?
1 year ago

Google Gemini's image generation feature: What went wrong?

India TV News  

Three weeks ago, Google launched a new image generation feature on its Gemini conversational app. However, in order to achieve this, the company forgot to account for two things- first while generating images with a range of people, it “failed to account for cases that should clearly not show a range” and second, “over time, the model became way more …

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes ‘overcompensate’ for diversity
1 year ago

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes ‘overcompensate’ for diversity

Associated Press  

Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make sense. In a 2022 technical paper, the researchers who developed Imagen warned that generative AI tools can be used for harassment or spreading misinformation …

Musk says Google executive ensured prompt action to fix ‘racial and gender bias’ in Gemini
1 year, 1 month ago

Musk says Google executive ensured prompt action to fix ‘racial and gender bias’ in Gemini

Hindustan Times  

After raising concerns over Gemini AI following reports of inaccuracies in depicting historical figures, X owner Elon Musk said Google has assured an action to fix the “racial and gender bias” in the tech giant's latest image generation model. Elon Musk calls Google 'insane' and ‘anti-civilisation’ Musk has criticized Google for its Gemini AI chatbot's text-to-image creation function. "I'm glad …

Rajeev Chandrashekhar reacts to Google Gemini's objectionable answer, ‘bias’ against PM Modi
1 year, 1 month ago

Rajeev Chandrashekhar reacts to Google Gemini's objectionable answer, ‘bias’ against PM Modi

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday reacted to an X user's complaint that Google's Gemini AI tool is biased against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the platform is in violation of the I T rules as well as other laws. This comes hours after billionaire Elon Musk described Google's AI image generation engine as racist. "I’m glad that …

Vivek Ramaswamy slams Google Gemini: Globally embarrassing rollout, blatantly racist
1 year, 1 month ago

Vivek Ramaswamy slams Google Gemini: Globally embarrassing rollout, blatantly racist

Live Mint  

Indian-American politician Vivek Ramaswamy, on Friday, called Google's latest AI roll-out 'Gemini' a "global embarrassment" as the chatbot's text-to-image generation feature was marred in controversies over “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions." The 38-year-old went on to call the Google AI chatbot "blatantly racist" and blamed the company to "program their employees with broken incentives." Taking to the social …

Google pauses Gemini’s image tool for people after anti-‘woke’ backlash
1 year, 1 month ago

Google pauses Gemini’s image tool for people after anti-‘woke’ backlash

Al Jazeera  

Tech giant says model is ‘missing the mark’ after controversy over failure to depict white people. Google has temporarily stopped its Gemini AI model from generating images of people following a backlash over its failure to depict white people. The search engine giant made the announcement on Thursday after Gemini users shared images created by the model that mostly featured …

Elon Musk criticises Google for running 'racist, anti-civilisational programming' with its AI
1 year, 1 month ago

Elon Musk criticises Google for running 'racist, anti-civilisational programming' with its AI

India TV News  

Elon Musk criticises Google for running 'racist, anti-civilisational programming' with its AI Elon Musk's comment came after Google paused the ability for Gemini AI to generate images of people, as controversy erupted over inaccuracies in AI-generated historical images. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have accused Google of running "racist, anti-civilisational programming" with its artificial intelligence models. This comes after …

Google pauses its Gemini AI tool after critics blasted it as 'too woke' for generating images of Asian Nazis in 1940 Germany, Black Vikings and female medieval knights
1 year, 1 month ago

Google pauses its Gemini AI tool after critics blasted it as 'too woke' for generating images of Asian Nazis in 1940 Germany, Black Vikings and female medieval knights

Daily Mail  

Google is pausing its new Gemini AI tool after users blasted the image generator for being 'too woke' by replacing white historical figures with people of color. In response to Google's announcement that it would be pausing Gemini's image generation features, some users posted 'Go woke, go broke' and other similar sentiments X user Frank J. Fleming repeatedly prompted Gemini …

Google suspends Gemini AI chatbot’s ability to generate pictures of people
1 year, 1 month ago

Google suspends Gemini AI chatbot’s ability to generate pictures of people

Associated Press  

Google said Thursday it is temporarily stopping its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from generating images of people a day after apologizing for “inaccuracies” in historical depictions that it was creating. “We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature,” Google said in a post on the social media platform X. “While we do this, we’re going to …

Google apologises after Gemini AI refuses to generate images of 'White people', gives diversity and discrimination lectures to users
1 year, 1 month ago

Google apologises after Gemini AI refuses to generate images of 'White people', gives diversity and discrimination lectures to users

Op India  

On 21st February, Google apologised as its chatbot Gemini failed to generate images portraying racially and ethnically accurate historical figures. As part of our AI principles https://t.co/BK786xbkey, we design our image generation capabilities to reflect our global user base, and we… — Jack Krawczyk February 21, 2024 Gemini chief Jack Krawczyk said, “We are aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies …

Even For AI, White Is Right: Photo enhancing bot turns Asian woman white when asked to beautify portrait
1 year, 7 months ago

Even For AI, White Is Right: Photo enhancing bot turns Asian woman white when asked to beautify portrait

Firstpost  

An Asian-American who was experimenting with AI bots to beautify her portrait and make it look professional found that none of them worked for her. One of them in fact turned her white, removing all her Mongoloid features, and giving her European features instead In a rather bizarre incident, a 24-year-old Asian-American MIT graduate, Rona Wang, discovered while using an …

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