Musk also targeted Google's employees and pointed out that Big Tech companies donated more to Democrats than Republicans in 2020. He specifically called out Gemini's product lead, Jack Krawczyk, accusing him of being a part of why Google's AI is racist and sexist. Musk, who has his own AI company and a competing chatbot called Grok, is using the Gemini controversy to highlight the advantages of his AI. He claims Grok will be funnier and less "woke" than its rivals.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk has been criticizing Google's Gemini image generator for its alleged racial and gender bias, and has claimed that a Google executive assured him that the company was taking immediate action to fix these issues.
- Google had to pause Gemini's image-generating feature due to backlash accusing it of being too 'woke' and generating historically inaccurate images of people of color.
- Musk also criticized other aspects of Google's business, including its search engine and email service, and hinted at a competing product called 'XMail'.
- Musk has founded his own AI company and released Grok, a competing chatbot, which he claims will be funnier and less 'woke' than its rivals, and is using the Gemini controversy to highlight the advantages of his AI.