The Gemini AI chatbot came under fire for creating historically inaccurate images of Black Vikings and refusing to generate images of white people. Google's vice president, Prabhakar Raghavan, has apologized for the incident, stating that the company did not intend for Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group or to create inaccurate images. The company plans to relaunch Gemini's image generator in the coming weeks.
Key takeaways:
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai has expressed his dissatisfaction with the errors made by the company's Gemini AI chatbot, calling them 'unacceptable' in an internal memo.
- The Gemini app had been generating historically inaccurate images and showing bias in its responses, which led to Google pausing its ability to create images of people.
- Pichai assured that teams at Google were working tirelessly to address the issues in Gemini and had seen substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts.
- Google plans to make structural changes to prevent similar issues in the future and aims to relaunch Gemini’s image generator in the coming weeks.