Google suspends Gemini AI chatbot’s ability to generate pictures of people

Google said on Feb 22, 2024, it’s temporarily stopping its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from generating images of people a day after apologising for ‘inaccuracies’ in historical depictions that it was creating. — AP

Google said Feb 22 it is temporarily stopping its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from generating images of people a day after apologising for “inaccuracies” in historical depictions that it was creating.

Gemini users this week posted screenshots on social media of historically white-dominated scenes with racially diverse characters that they say it generated, leading critics to raise questions about whether the company is over-correcting for the risk of racial bias in its AI model.