Google Suspends AI Tool’s Image Generation of People After It Created Historical ‘Inaccuracies,’ Including Racially Diverse WWII-Era Nazi Soldiers

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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After critics slammed Google‘s “woke” generative AI system, the company halted the ability of its Gemini tool to create images of people to fix what it acknowledged were “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions.” Google’s Gemini, formerly known as Bard, began offering text-to-image generative features this month.

The problem appeared to be that, in trying to compensate for gender- and racial-representation bias in AI, the system was creating ahistorical images of people.

Among the bizarre results generated by Google Gemini that users posted on social media was a racially diverse group of images depicting a “1943 German soldier,” as shared by X user JohnLu0x: Still real real broke pic.twitter.com/FrPBrYi47v Other historically anomalous images generated by Google Gemini included Black Vikings; a woman as the Catholic pope; women NHL players; the founders of Google depicted as Asian men; and non-white people in a scene of the U.S.’s Founding Fathers.

In a statement early Thursday, Google said, “We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature.