Commentary Google has turned off the availability of text-to-image features in its recently released Gemini multimodal basic AI model, after it failed to accurately represent white Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
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This became apparent when people asked Gemini (formerly known as Bard) to produce images of a German soldier from 1943 and the software produced a non-white ethnically diverse cadre that did not accurately represent the composition of the Wehrmacht at the time – despite people of color serving in the German armed forces.
In short, Gemini would be falling all over himself not to show too many—or even any—white people, depending on the call.
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