Google Gemini generated historically inaccurate images depicting racially diverse US founding fathers and Black Nazis, despite using bias-reduction techniques that could score well on existing fairness benchmarks.
Notes on verification
Well-documented incident from February 2024, confirmed by multiple independent, reputable sources (The Verge, CNN, NBC News, Reason) and acknowledged publicly by Google itself.
Sources
- These new AI benchmarks could help make models less biased (technologyreview.com)
- https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini-generative-inaccurate-historical (theverge.com)
- https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/google-gemini-ai-image-generator (cnn.com)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-says-gemini-ai-glitches-product-effort-address-traps-rcna140243 (nbcnews.com)
- https://reason.com/2024/05/28/the-great-black-pope-and-asian-nazi-debacle-of-2024/ (reason.com)