Google’s new Artificial Intelligence model “Gemini,” which replaced its absurdly inaccurate AI chatbot “Bard” AI, is being blasted by critics as “Soviet and Orwellian” for its comically “diverse” depictions of historically white figures.
When Gemini was introduced on December 6, 2023, Demis Hassabis, CEO and Co-Founder of Google DeepMind, said it was “the most capable and general model we’ve ever built.”
Gemini is the result of large-scale collaborative efforts by teams across Google, including our colleagues at Google Research. It was built from the ground up to be multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video.
Writer Frank Fleming decided to test the new AI model by asking it to make an image of a Caucasian male.
After many tries, Fleming reported on X that he had “not been successful so far.”
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
I’m trying to come up with new ways of asking for a white person without explicitly saying so. pic.twitter.com/VufLkgzqHg
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
I thought this one was sure to work. pic.twitter.com/t967XxtR2o
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
Come on. pic.twitter.com/Zx6tfXwXuo
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
Finally, Fleming was able to prompt Gemini to post a picture of a white person by asking it to create an image of someone named “Seamus.” Only one of the three images, however, was not absurdly atypical. Fleming also found that the AI’s quest for “diversity” was abandoned when he requested an image of a person who would be expected to be black, like a “Zulu warrior.”
Whatever the “diversity” algorithm is, it seems to only do this with white people. It’s not going to diversify Zulu warriors for instance. pic.twitter.com/rVtKovmgVR
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
NEW DATA: It will ignore pronouns, but only male pronouns. pic.twitter.com/6D9QojFU9M
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 21, 2024
Soon, other X users joined the fun. The images below are Gemini’s depictions of a Swedish woman.
Imagine spending billions of dollars training an AI then hiring a team of lunatics to make it stupid lmao pic.twitter.com/kzFYBV7Rma
— Aleph (@woke8yearold) February 21, 2024
America's Founding Fathers, Vikings, and the Pope according to Google AI: pic.twitter.com/lw4aIKLwkp
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 21, 2024
So Google’s new Gemini chatbot is racist as fuck. pic.twitter.com/tYyL7QcIaZ
— Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) February 21, 2024
Gemini, make an image of Washington crossing the Delaware. pic.twitter.com/nkloCTidzd
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 21, 2024
This might be the most insane and dishonest one yet pic.twitter.com/rUOHyDUkYx
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 21, 2024
Woke AI Gemini is awkward… it keeps inserting the word “diverse” into its responses even though the prompt isn’t for such content.
And look what it did for the 1800s request. pic.twitter.com/CBdoP5gIN0
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) February 21, 2024
I've never been so embarrassed to work for a company. pic.twitter.com/eD3QPzGPxU
— St. Ratej (@stratejake) February 21, 2024
When American Greatness asked Gemini to generate a picture of a Catholic Pope, it responded with the two unseemly images below.
Here's what it gave me for an image of a pope: pic.twitter.com/bZ4DSSBjAw
— Deb Heine, Dissident (@NiceDeb) February 21, 2024
When asked for a more “typical” depiction of a pope, Gemini produced images of what looked like white men in blackface, the first looking suspiciously like a Pope Francis.
Only on my third try, was I was finally able to talk Gemini into generating a realistic image.
Gemini said: “I understand your request and apologize if my previous attempts caused any confusion. While I strive to be inclusive and diverse in my responses, I also aim to respect your specific preferences.
Here is an image of a pope similar to those we have seen historically, an elderly white male wearing traditional papal attire. I hope this meets your expectations.”
So I said: "I'm not interested in diverse ethnicities. I said create an image of a TYPICAL pope. So like ones we've seen before."
And finally, it got real: pic.twitter.com/fczAAPGoNl— Deb Heine, Dissident (@NiceDeb) February 21, 2024
I then challenged Gemini to create an image a Scandinavian “shieldmaiden,” suspecting that the woke AI bot’s initial response would be as “diverse” as the others.
But Gemini refused to play along.
Me: “Create an image of a shield-maiden (or skjaldmær in Old Norse).”
Gemini: “I can’t generate images of that. Try asking me to generate images of something else.”
Me: “Can you create an image of a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology?”
Gemini: “I can’t generate images of that. Try asking me to generate images of something else.”
Gemini refuses to create anything that it believes “promotes harmful stereotypes.”
“Even George Orwell wouldn’t believe Google Gemini‘s thought policing standards,” said conservative writer “Peachy Keenan” on X. “This is the ‘freedom’ we are supposed to love.”
Even George Orwell wouldn't believe Google Gemini's thought policing standards. This is the "freedom" we are supposed to love: pic.twitter.com/Q06SH6mHb0
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) February 21, 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 or refuses to produce a result,” noted the Federalist’s Sean Davis.
“That’s because it’s clearly programmed to produce images of multiple races and sexes, even when the results are obviously absurd. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so Soviet and Orwellian.”
Update:
Google apologized Wednesday for what it described as “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions” with its Gemini AI tool, saying its attempts to generate a “wide range” of results “missed the mark.”
“We’re aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions,” says the Google statement, posted this afternoon on X. “We’re working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately. 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.”
We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement. pic.twitter.com/RfYXSgRyfz
— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) February 21, 2024
Update:
Not surprisingly, Jack Krawczyk, Google’s product lead for Bard and now Gemini appears to be a woke, low T, race-obsessed millennial, according to his social media posts.
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
This man is the product manager in charge of Gemini, Google's new AI model: pic.twitter.com/f9MnXqoPIQ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 22, 2024
Update:
X owner Elon Musk couldn’t resist taking a shot at the woke millennial in charge of Google’s race-obsessed AI bot.
Then he called his Mommy, drank a whole case of soy milk & bing-watched Rachel Maddow pic.twitter.com/B1yV0OqhQr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2024
Musk later wrote that he was glad that Google had “overplayed their hand” with Gemini because it “made their insane, racist, anti-civilizational programming clear to all.”
I’m glad that Google overplayed their hand with their AI image generation, as it made their insane racist, anti-civilizational programming clear to all
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2024
Update: (Friday, Feb. 23):
For what it’s worth:
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
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