Meanwhile: #AI

Google hits pause on Gemini’s people pictures

After a diversity initiative proved disastrous, it’s time to loosen chatbot guardrails

https://www.platformer.news/google-gemini-ai-photos-diversity-pause/

Stratechery noted that Google’s Gemini chatbot seemed to refuse all attempts to generate images of white men The refusals, which came as a result of the bot re-writing user prompts in an effort to bring more diversity into the images it generates, led to some deeply ahistorical howlers: racially diverse Nazis, for example