Google Pauses Gemini AI's Image Generator

Google has temporarily discontinued the operation of the AI-powered tool Gemini from generating human images. This came after a day when the tech giant issued an apology for Gemini's inaccuracies in depicting historical images of people.

 Google's Gemini was criticized for depicting images of specific white figures like the US Founding Fathers, and Nazi-era German soldiers as people of color. This resulted in backlash and Google is causing racial bias by not depicting white people.

Some of the people who criticized as well as defended Gemini wrote on X that it's good to depict diversity in some cases and criticized the fact that Gemini is inconsistent.

A few hours after Google's apology, Google posted a statement on X stating that they are pausing the image-generating feature as they are working to improve and address the issue. They also stated that will re-release the improved version of Gemini soon.

According to a report, Google does not generate images that it felt were errors but the use of Gemini to generate images is an attempt to boost diversity as there was a chronic lack of it in the generative AI. The image generators are trained to generate the best picture and text captions, which means that they can sometimes amplify stereotypes.

Gemini AI was officially released on December 6 by Google. As it integrates natural language processing and image recognition, Gemini helps in image captioning and complex visual parsing.

In a bid to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft's Copilot, Google began offering the image generation feature in the AI-powered tool Gemini. The image generation tool generates a collection of images based on a text prompt.

Other than Google, OpenAI's ChatGPT has also resolved an issue. ChatGPT started giving unexpected responses, malfunctioning, and spitting out nonsensical sentences instead of its usual output.