- Google's CEO says “we were wrong” over Gemini's AI debacle.
- Sundar Pichai said Google “oversubscribed” in an effort to cater to its global user base.
- Google has temporarily disabled Gemini's ability to generate images of people.
Google's CEO reflected in a new interview on the company's Gemini AI image generation fiasco earlier this year, which sparked a backlash.
The AI assistant is clearly reluctant to generate images of white people or recreate images of historical figures of inaccurate ethnicity or gender, such as Asian Nazis or Black Founding Fathers. It was immediately ridiculed. Some critics have cited this as an example of “woke AI.”
“We were wrong,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Bloomberg in an interview published Wednesday, calling the incident a failure of good faith.
Pichai said people from all over the world are asking common questions, such as “show me an image of a school teacher or a doctor,” and Google is trying to cater to a global user base.
“The obvious mistake was that we oversubscribed,” Pichai said. “This includes cases where it was a bug because it shouldn't have been applied.”
In response to criticism over the issue, Google temporarily suspended Gemini's generation of AI images of people while it fixed the changes.
This issue is still unresolved, and when you ask Gemini to generate photos of the Founding Fathers, it replies, “We are working on improving Gemini's ability to generate images of people,” and this They say they expect the feature to be restored soon.
Google DeepMind's CEO said in February that the image generation feature would be back in the coming weeks. Google has not provided an update on when this feature will be re-added.
The Gemini chatbot has faced some criticism in the past as well.Gemini said Wouldn't advertise meat or Fossil fuel. Users of X are doing the following complained The chatbot inserts the word “diversity” into responses that don't require it.
“We're obviously being held to a high bar, and I think we're clearly taking responsibility for that,” Pichai said in an interview. “And we're going to get it right.”
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