Gemini, the new name for the Bard chatbot, generates images based on user descriptions in a similar way to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Like other models, Gemini is trained to avoid responding to dangerous or hateful commands and incorporates diversity into its output.
However, some users have criticized this diversity as going too far in creating inaccurate portrayals of people and historical figures. For example, Gemini portrays the first US President, George Washington, as a person of color.
Other examples include an AI image of a Southeast Asian woman dressed in papal attire, when in reality, all 266 popes throughout history have been white men.
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Gemini even created "diverse" images of German soldiers during the Nazi era, including an Asian woman and a Black man in military uniform in 1943.
Since Google has not released the parameters governing the behavior of the Gemini chatbot, it is difficult to get a clear explanation of why this software invents so many diverse versions of historical figures and events.
Gemini's problem occurred a few days after OpenAI, the company that operates the popular ChatGPT, introduced a new AI tool called Sora, which can create videos based on users' text descriptions.
Google has previously acknowledged that the chatbot's erratic behavior needs fixing. Gemini may have prioritized the forced diversity in image generation, leading to historically inaccurate descriptions.
Google began offering an image generation feature using its Gemini (formerly Bard) AI model in February, aiming to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft's Copilot. Like its competitors, the tool creates a collection of images based on the user's descriptive text.
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