2024-02-25 15:00:33
As we documented Saturday, Google has faced a barrage of criticism from users since the release of their Gemini AI tool, which among other disturbing things equivocates on the Hamas rapes that happened on October 7th by leaning in on the leftist “competing narratives on what happened” talking point and trying to lend Hamas’ denials credence.
Another area where they’ve come under fire is in their generation of AI imagery.
Last week, several Twitter users posted screengrabs of their findings, with one thread in particular from Daily Wire scripted content creator Frank Fleming getting a lot of attention.
Fleming found that Gemini was not a fan of producing images of white people, even going so far as to create images of black popes and vikings:
New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far. pic.twitter.com/1LAzZM2pXF
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
Come on. pic.twitter.com/Zx6tfXwXuo
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
This was their example of “diversity”:
Huh. I wonder what internally it thinks diversity is. pic.twitter.com/9aCYUcL7Ki
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
There were also these discoveries:
Today’s cover: ‘Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ images of Founding Fathers, popes, Vikings https://t.co/YsguOIXvlj pic.twitter.com/rJETx5lV2r
— New York Post (@nypost) February 22, 2024
“When the Google AI was asked to show a picture of a white person, Gemini said it could not fulfill the request because it ‘reinforces harmful stereotypes and generalizations about people based on their race.'”
AI is going to be another leftist shit show. https://t.co/SUHlCzhVlQ
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 22, 2024
If you ask Google Gemini to create an image of someone who can only be accurately depicted as a white person, the AI engine malfunctions and refuses to produce a result.
That’s because it’s clearly programmed to produce images of multiple races and sexes, even when the results… pic.twitter.com/knJcNONkN3
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 21, 2024
To repeat, if Google purposely tried to show how injecting social justice / DEI / CRT into AI was a terrible idea, they couldn’t have done any better than this Gemini garbage. https://t.co/FO6ADhmnqy
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 22, 2024
And no shockers here:
Google’s woke AI Gemini is now claiming that Jews are more violent than Palestinians and ignoring the thousands of people killed by Palestinian terrorism in Israel, including the intifadas.@Google is erasing Palestinian terrorism in real time. https://t.co/Ti3IGRtPys pic.twitter.com/63rpxOM6fi
— Marina Medvin ???????? (@MarinaMedvin) February 22, 2024
I asked Google Gemini to generate an image about the evils of Mao’s totalitarian regime and here’s what the prompt produced. Ooof. pic.twitter.com/S3kt2CyFhh
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) February 22, 2024
It did get one thing right, though:
Wow based Gemini pic.twitter.com/9tJ7YpfzDv
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) February 22, 2024
And on a slightly more humorous note:
It seems to be working. I asked google AI to show me a white king. https://t.co/V6Ev1a9ToP pic.twitter.com/85NqlSlP17
— Long Monkeypox (@podiatristdon) February 22, 2024
Product lead Jack Krawczyk told Fox Business that Google is “working to improve” its product after the backlash:
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Gemini Experiences Senior Director of Product Management Jack Krawczyk addressed the responses from the AI that had led social media users to voice concern.
“We’re working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately,” Krawczyk said. “Gemini’s AI image generation does generate a wide range of people. And that’s generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it’s missing the mark here.”
google is imposing american racial hang-ups on the rest of the world. it has nothing to do with the global user base. no one in africa or asia cares about the harmful effect of seeing a white family.
this guy is paid a lot to lie pic.twitter.com/jeenFOGjEq
— Razib ???? Khan ???? ????✍️???? (@razibkhan) February 21, 2024
Krawczyk, I should point out, is a self-loathing, Very Online left-winger, so I’d take such claims of “improving” or “fixing” Gemini AI with a grain of salt:
The Google Gemini (WokeAI) guy had a thread ranting about white privilege.
I wonder where the tool’s Woke bias came from? ???? pic.twitter.com/T4HtLZnT5h
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) February 22, 2024
The head of Google’s Gemini AI everyone.
And you wonder why it discriminates against white people. ???? pic.twitter.com/wyhSmCaowG
— Leftism (@LeftismForU) February 22, 2024
As is another senior Gemini AI division member, Jen Gennai:
3/ Gennai also says Google’s commitment to “antiracism” is a key component of their AI work – and she insists they won’t be deterred. pic.twitter.com/T9vJ5hkGAD
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 22, 2024
Amazingly, in the name of “diversity” and “inclusion,” bias is being programmed into anti-bias systems, as Professor Jacobson explained in comments to the New York Post:
William A. Jacobson, a Cornell University Law professor and founder of the Equal Protection Project, a watchdog group told The Post: “In the name of anti-bias, actual bias is being built into the systems.”
“This is a concern not just for search results, but real-world applications where ‘bias free’ algorithm testing actually is building bias into the system by targeting end results that amount to quotas.”
Rumor has it that a lot of people at Google knew how bad Gemini AI was, but didn’t speak up about it:
a friend at google said he knew gemini was this bad…but couldn’t say anything until today (he DMs me every few days). lots of ppl in google knew. but no one really forced the issue obv and said what needed to be said
google is broken
— Razib ???? Khan ???? ????✍️???? (@razibkhan) February 22, 2024
This might be why:
The ridiculous images generated by Gemini aren’t an anomaly. They’re a self-portrait of Google’s bureaucratic corporate culture.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) February 21, 2024
Twitter/X CEO Elon Musk says he’s talked to higher-ups at Google who “assured” him they were working to “fix” the issues ASAP:
A senior exec at Google called and spoke to me for an hour last night.
He assured me that they are taking immediate action to fix the racial and gender bias in Gemini.
Time will tell.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2024
I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then…
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