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Google pauses Gemini's images of people
Historically inaccurate images draw a backlash, and Google admits it got them wrong
Key facts
- Date
- 22 Feb 2024
- Era
- The model wars
- Interest
- Culture
- Threads
- Safety & governance
- Who
- Paused
- 22 Feb 2024, about three weeks after the feature launched
- Google's verdict
- “Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better.”
Users shared Gemini images that put people of colour into historical scenes where that was inaccurate, including Nazi-era German soldiers. On 22 February Google paused image generation of people, and a day later admitted the tuning had overcompensated in some cases and been over-conservative in others.
Sources
- Google, Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better., 2024-02-23
- Al Jazeera, Google pauses Gemini’s image tool for people after anti-‘woke’ backlash, 2024-02-23