Sundar Pichai admits unacceptable errors in Gemini after it produces controversial imagery

Google’s Gemini AI image generation tool previously received plenty of flak and became the subject of memes, particularly on Twitter, for ‘historical accuracies’ and misrepresenting people. 

It got so bad that the search engine giant was forced to snatch away the ability to produce images from the AI chatbot.

This week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed these missteps of the company’s new AI image generator, Gemini, acknowledging the “unacceptable” errors and affirming Google’s commitment to fixing the problems.

In an internal memo published by Semafor, Pichai wrote that “no AI is perfect” but said the company would continue refining Gemini “for however long it takes.”

He remained upbeat about Gemini’s future, saying the team has already seen “substantial improvement” in many areas.

The image generation capabilities of Gemini, formerly known as Bard, have been paused since users noticed it was churning out historically inaccurate pictures, like images of Vikings and Founding Fathers depicted as people of colour.

This sparked backlash on social media, with many critics decrying the “woke” programming.