Google’s Gemini AI, recently rebranded from Bard, has been generating historically inaccurate images, leading to significant backlash. The AI tool created images of racially diverse Nazis and US Founding Fathers, which were deemed ‘absurdly woke’ and ‘unusable’. Google has paused the image generation feature of Gemini and issued an apology. The company explained that the tuning of the Gemini AI had led it to ‘overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others’, resulting in the generation of historically or factually inaccurate images. This incident has sparked a debate about the role of AI in shaping our understanding of history and the potential biases that can be built into these systems.
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