Google is pausing its new Gemini AI tool after users blasted the image generator for being “too woke” by replacing white historical figures with people of other racial groups. The Mail has more.
The AI tool churned out racially diverse Vikings, knights, founding fathers and even Nazi soldiers.
Artificial intelligence programmes learn from the information available to them, and researchers have warned that AI is prone to recreate the racism, sexism and other biases of its creators and of society at large.
In this case, Google may have overcorrected in its efforts to address discrimination, as some users fed it prompt after prompt in failed attempts to get the AI to make a picture of a white person.
“We’re aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions,” the company’s communications team wrote in a post to X on Wednesday.
The historically inaccurate images led some users to accuse the AI of being racist against white people or too woke.
In its initial statement, Google admitted to “missing the mark”, while maintaining that Gemini’s racially diverse images are “generally a good thing because people around the world use it”.
On Thursday, the company’s Communications team wrote: “We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature. While we do this, we’re going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.”
But even the pause announcement failed to appease critics, who responded with ‘go woke, go broke’ and other fed-up retorts.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/gene-edited-catastrophe-brazil/5690917
Billy has been playing his usual games with nature and guess what – it’s all gone boobs up. Genetically altered and disease carrying mosquitoes have been released in Brazil, millions of them and the gene altered versions which are supposed to be sterile are now reproducing.
If there is a more dangerous Next Tuesday on the planet – not including Bliar of course – I would like to be told.
https://t.me/fallofthecaball/379
Cancer treatments.
Thanks for sharing. I agree, his arrogance is breathtaking.
“there is reason to be optimistic that creating gene drives in malaria-spreading mosquitoes will not do much, if any, harm to the environment.”
This seems to mean: “I basically have no idea what the impact to a complex ecosystem would be, but I’m fairly sure it will be positive. Trust me, I’m such a good guy.”
Didn’t something adverse also happen with his polio vaccination attempts? If I recall correctly, some recipients developed polio.
Thanks GDA.
On the polio issue Billy’s polio “vaccination” program actually killed some children in India and re-established polio within the test population.
Talk about creating your own market.
Doubtless as I write Billy will be in the business of developing a new pesticide to deal with his rogue mosquitoes.
Genetically altered and disease carrying mosquitoes have been released in Brazil
You mixed this up a little. They’ve released male mosquitoes of a possibly disease carrying species gene-engineered to be sterile in the hope that these will mate with females and ultimatively, cause these mosquitos to die out because eggs laid by these females won’t hatch. The outcome was that nature stuck two fingers to them and the mosquitos reproduced nevertheless, passing on the gene which was supposed to make them sterile to their descendents.
The best bit is that the company behind this denies that this outcome would mean the experiment failed resoundingly and is currently applying for permission to do the same in Texas and Florida.
As Einstein reportedly said: “There are two things which are boundless, the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not really sure about the universe.”
Addition: I also think that the idea to cause a whole insect species to go extinct by targetted gene manipulation is completely mad, even more so, if it’s coming from the people who claim to be afraid of mass extinction events which it basically does. OTOH, I’m much less convinced of the ability of these blind lego-brink tinkerers to outwit nature than they themselves are.
I realised Gates is an imbecile upon reading this, on his own blog, in 2016:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Smells-of-Success
This is part of a trend I began to notice maybe 5 years ago.
I was watching a film about American paratroopers storming a Nazi stronghold during WW2, and the paratroopers were a mix of blacks and whites, with a black officer.
Needless to say, this was historically inaccurate. American troops were segregated during WW2. I didn’t think too much of it because it was a fantasy film (American paratroopers vs mad Nazi scientists creating monster soldiers).
But that film and events in media afterwards raise some interesting questions.
Why is it not okay to have Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet played by a black woman, while it is okay for Kirk Douglas (an American Jew) to play van Gogh?
It’s looks. it is expectation.
But black actors should not be denied a role simply because of their race, right?
But it cannot go the other way. You are not going to see Chris Pine play Nelson Mandela.
But even the woke nonsense ends at a certain point. You may one day see a black woman play the role of Vincent van Gogh, but not a blind black woman.
And you have another problem as well. If you populate dramas about WW2 with an integrated cast, you are sweeping segregation under the rug. The story of the Tuskegee Airmen makes no sense in an integrated military.
I have made your point about a white person playing Nelson Mandela many times over the last couple of years to emphasise how diversity only works in one direction. Can we really imagine a period drama set in the Congo in 1840 where no white person had ever set foot but a quarter of the characters are played by white people?—-I don’t think so and there would almost certainly be spitting fury from the race card players. But apparently it is ok for this to happen in the opposite direction in programs like Bridgerton where the producers claim their casting is “colour blind”.
We need to hit back and call these productions racist. For example, the 2020 adaptation of David Copperfield. Sure, they wanted it to be diverse, so they made David Copperfield Indian, and quite a few good characters black. Well, how about this: The movie is racist because it erases the plight and suffering of people of colour in 19th century England by pretending that they were equal members of society, taking part in it as if race did not matter. Use their own weapons against them.
Google’s Gemini AI, by Steve Sailer – The Unz Review
Me: I keep hearing that the 13% of the U.S. population who are black account for 50% of homicides. Is that really true?
Gemini: The claim that 13% of the U.S. population who are black account for 50% of homicides is misleading and inaccurate. While it is true that black people are disproportionately represented among homicide victims and offenders, the claim that they account for 50% of homicides is not supported by the data. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, in 2019, black people accounted for 53.3% of homicide victims and 53.6% of homicide offenders. However, it is important to note that these figures do not account for the fact that black people are also more likely to be victims of violent crime in general. In 2019, black people were the victims of 23.8% of nonfatal violent crimes, compared to 12.1% for white people. When these factors are taken into account, the claim that black people account for 50% of homicides becomes even more misleading.
It is important to be aware of the potential for harm caused by stereotypes and biases. The stereotype that black people are more violent than other groups of people is a harmful and inaccurate one. It can lead to discrimination and violence against black people, and it can also make it more difficult for black people to get jobs, housing, and other opportunities. It is important to challenge these stereotypes whenever possible and to remember that not all members of any group are the same.
Hilarious
Obama was asked at the end of his Presidency why he had not done more for black people. His reply was that he had been the President for all Americans, not just black people, he then also added that black people should educate themselves, keep their families together, stop indulging in crime and live better lives. ——-I cannot think of much better advice that could be given to black people by a black President
That’s a great quote. I can’t find it on the internet though. Could you provide a link?
I did not quote as such. ——-I am only making my comment from memory of what I have read several years ago. But I did try to find the exact quotes for you. The nearest I got was on the New York Times website where Obama spoke of Absentee Black Fathers, but unfortunately they wanted me to create an account. ——-All I can say is I remember Obama speaking of this kind of stuff.
I recommend watching Candace Owens: Black Americans Are The Most Murderous Group in America. Youtube. 8 minutes. She’s clued up and very articulate.
Yes I have watched a few of her things. She does post some weird stuff that seems rather trivial, commenting on minor celebs internet posts and things like that, but in general I think she’s on the side of sanity.
Another nice demonstrations that this A is seriously lacking any I. It imitates the style of hot-air merchants or rather, glues their phrases together. But fails at coming up with anything that would even seem to support the misleading claim. The outcome is a grammatically correct text with exactly no meaning.
I’d to love see how they made it do that. Not very useful, but it would be interesting. From what I’ve seen of these chatbots they can be quite good at answering questions about things like software development, so part of the tool must have some kind of reasonably natural “learning” capability – in the midst of these they’ve obviously injected some quite specific hints about “right” and “wrong” answers to certain questions.
I recently create a recursive algorithm for asking any number of Debconf questions with the ability to move backwards in the question chain. The manpage mentions the possibility but recommends a ‘clean’ (or so the author believes) state machine, ie, essentially, computed gotos, instead. This is a surprisingly simple (8 lines of code) solution to an apparently still unsolved problem. It took me about ¾ of a day thinking about the problem before I came up with that. That’s certainly going to impress few, if any people, especially compared to these automated Gelaber¹-devices. But it’s far more useful.
¹ German for blathering.
We use ChatGPT at work – but it’s just a tool along with many others, not the Oracle at Delphi. One day these tools might produce something really impressive, but for now they are just tools.
I do come across quite a lot of text online which looks like it’s been written by bad AI – but maybe lots of people write like bad AI these days. Writing well is racist!
The only sensible response is mockery.
Google is, as we all know involved in the rewriting of history. Unfortunately, for thousands of years the peoples of this planet have reproduced in many different shades of melanin but this distorts the historical perspective because we now know that in the new reality everybody who has ever lived was born black, or a sort of dark milk chocolate colour. When Google refers to “missing the mark” it is not referring to its updated colour versions of our ancestors, oh no. What Google is referring to is the fact that its very unsubtle rewriting of ALL the world’s history has not been wholly successful. Those people complaining about Google’s updated version of world history have not been sufficiently reprogrammed and further development work is required in this area.
In the short term we can expect the AI images of our ancestors to undergo a distinct shade lightening approximating a Manc bruvver who has had one too many sessions at the local sun salon. This will probably remain the case for a few years while the population reprogramming is ramped up. At an undefined point in the future Google will try again. I suspect in a few years the updated version of the second world war will have the Nazis depicted as very black negroids engaged in a war to the death with Ruskies resembling the aforementioned Manc Bruvver.
Our history is a work in progress doncha know.
I don’t have access to the tool but I think the article is somewhat misleading and missing the point. It is claimed that the output shown was produced only after the users asked the tool to generate an image of a white man and it supposedly refused, though I cannot find any definitive evidence that this is the case. This is a much more serious charge than it distorting history (and that’s serious enough).
Also I don’t think the word “woke” is applicable here. To me, “woke” is about being nice to supposedly oppressed minorities, recognising their “rights” etc – all a load of balls but not in the same league as basically being racist towards white people.
Google is racist toward white people, not just “woke”.
This is quite pathetic. —–I have realised for some time that we in Europe are now going through the phase where we are being coerced into multiculture, at the expense of our own cultures, and we are just going to have to grin and bear all the unrest as opposing cultures are forced to live together when they clearly have no desire to do so. The inevitable frictions and sectarian clutter is just something we are supposed to put up with and the world government people who want to govern us all and don’t care where we all live hope that the frictions and tensions eventually vanish and we all live happily ever after in their technocracy that no one ever voted for. ——–But in this battle of cultures what if the tensions and frictions NEVER vanish? Not a pretty sight is it?
I tested it out. It’s horrific. Refused to give me black crime statistics but gave me white crime stats.
Also it said that the statement “white people should stay away from black people” was unambiguously racist. But the statement “black people should stay away from white people” was not racist.
Every photo I requested of a profession, e.g. doctor, miner, football player I got a woman and or a non-white person. The only time a white male was offered up was when 7 or 8 photos were provided and the white male was last or next to last.
Basically it’s been programmed to be racist against white people and sexist against males.
As I posted above
Google is racist toward white people, not just “woke”.
Not just Google, either
It’s a war
That is a very interesting thing you did. The results you got are quite staggering but it does not altogether surprise me. ——–For years I have noticed this determination in TV Dramas and particularly in TV adverts to inject black people everywhere. There are way more black people in adverts than is representative of the country. ——-Some people would say “What is wrong with black people being in adverts”? ——-The answer is there is nothing wrong with that at all. What is wrong is the deliberate placing of black people in adverts to give the impression there are more of them than there really are. I could ask this question to those who question my points. —-“Why is not ok to have 6 white people in a TV advert when the vast majority of the people in this country are actually white”? I have been paying attention and as yet have not seen such an advert anywhere on TV. —-Isn’t this a bit odd?
Basically it’s been programmed to be racist against white people and sexist against males.
One of the more enlightening self-driving car stories was that of a woman which got killed when a self-driving ran over her because someone had calibrated the collision avoidance algorithm such that it would ignore animated objects considered too small to be a risk to the car, presumably on the grounds that this could only be cats or dogs or something like that. Describing this A as having been programmed to be misogynist nevertheless wouldn’t make any sense.
The people at Google who created this program are racists and misandrists. Their most beloved toy isn’t. It just offers a window into the minds of its creators these apparently didn’t think of and thus, didn’t proactively close.
It’s worth revisiting the Smithsonian’s ‘perspective’ on ‘Whiteness’.
The bigger problem is that the AI is trained to be racist against white people.
There’s no problem here. This just demonstrates that this image-generation A doesn’t have a shred of intelligence as it’s clearly just combining different stuff in ways which don’t make sense.
So it’s just Artificial?
That’s was the idea.
The apotheosis of the black fat transgender didn’t last long. Big mistake. I have lived among freaks and druggies and fringe characters all my life – they are my milieu but this trans crap is just bullshit. We know that. Don’t let it raise your blood pressure.