Black George Washington? Google shows pitfalls of ‘woke’ AI
Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said it was “completely unacceptable” that his company’s AI tool inserted unprompted diversity into requests for historical images.
Black Nazis. An Asian man among America’s founding fathers. An American Indian woman serving in the US Senate circa 1800.
Users querying Google’s new AI image generator, Gemini, were greeted with these depictions of strange and ahistorical diversity in February in response to prompts they expected to generate more realistic results.
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Nick Bonyhady is a technology writer for the Australian Financial Review, based in Sydney. He is a former technology editor, industrial relations and politics reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age. Connect with Nick on Twitter. Email Nick at nick.bonyhady@afr.com
