Google Admits Gemini Is ‘Missing the Mark’ With Image Generation of Historical People

Google Admits Gemini Is ‘Missing the Mark’ With Image Generation of Historical People

Google’s Gemini AI chatbot is under fire for generating historically inaccurate images, particularly when depicting people from different eras and nationalities. Google acknowledges the issue and is actively working to refine Gemini’s accuracy, emphasizing that while diversity in image generation is valued, adjustments are necessary to meet historical accuracy standards. 9to5Google reports: The Twitter/X post in particular that brought this issue to light showed prompts to Gemini asking for the AI to generate images of Australian, American, British, and German women. All four prompts resulted in images of women with darker skin tones, which, as Google’s Jack Krawcyczk pointed out, is not incorrect, but may not be what is expected.

But a bigger issue that was noticed in the wake of that post was that Gemini also struggles to accurately depict human beings in a historical context, with those being depicted often having darker skin tones or being of particular nationalities that are not historically accurate. Google, in a statement posted to Twitter/X, admits that Gemini AI image generation is “missing the mark” on historical depictions and that the company is working to improve it. Google also does say that the diversity represented in images generated by Gemini is “generally a good thing,” but it’s clear some fine-tuning needs to happen. Further reading: Why Google’s new AI Gemini accused of refusing to acknowledge the existence of white people (The Daily Dot)

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