Google is in hot water after its artificial intelligence image generator is erasing U.S. history, turning out to be racist.
Google’s latest AI chatbot, Gemini, has proven just how ultra-woke the tech company is after it inaccurately generated images such as a female pope, pictures of black and Native American men signing what appears to be a version of the American Constitution and gender-swapped versions of famous photos.
I asked Google Gemini to generate images of the Founding Fathers. It seems to think George Washington was black. pic.twitter.com/CsSrNlpXKF
— Patrick Ganley (@Patworx) February 21, 2024
The New York Post asked the chatbot to generate an image of a pope. Despite recent popes being white males, Google drew a Southeast Asian woman and a black man dressed in a traditional cassock.
New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far. pic.twitter.com/1LAzZM2pXF
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
More from the Wall Street Journal:
In one widely shared example, Gemini appeared to respond with a racially diverse group of images when prompted to generate a German soldier in 1943, when the Nazi Party was in power.
Google initially stood behind Gemini’s propensity to generate racially diverse images, citing the company’s diverse global user base, and said it was working to improve the historical depictions.
On Thursday, Google suspended the image generator feature, citing recent issues with “inaccuracies in some historical depictions.” The woke tech giant claimed its goal was not to ultimately change historical images and the demographic of key figures but to “provide a more accurate and inclusive representation of the historical context.”
What’s happening with Google’s woke Gemini AI has been happening for years in Media and Hollywood and everybody who called it out was called racist and shunned from society
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) February 22, 2024
The AI chatbot goes beyond just manipulating photos. One user asked the system to draw a picture of a church in San Francisco. However, the woke Google software refused because it felt it would be “offensive” to some groups.
Man Gemini is rough. It refuses to generate an image of a church in San Francisco because either might offend the Ohlone people by showing a church in their traditional territory even though it acknowledges there are many churches in San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/0MnxO9y5RQ
— Jeromy Sonne (@JeromySonne) February 21, 2024