Oh, the meaning of life... you wake up, drink coffee, and one day you find out Google thinks white people might be aliens. Jack Superblack here, deeply contemplating the infinite abyss on a Wednesday. I mean, is it better to fail at depicting people or to never depict at all?
Google’s high-tech puppet show, the A.I. chatbot named Gemini, went rogue in February, deciding that one color in the human rainbow was too hard to frame up. Power move? Mistake? Early April Fool's? Your guess is as good as mine. It’s a cold world when a computer program could mess things up this elegantly.
Enter Google's damage control: among the majesty of mess-ups, they've decided not only to reboot Gemini but also to lace it with the latest Imagen 3 mojo. Dave Citron, a big wig at Google, promises loads of progress. "We can now show you an array of humans without breaking the universe," he might as well have said.
To avoid a PR disaster, they’ve added a no-no list: no realistic public figures, no kids, and no violence. Good thinking. Because, you know, who wouldn’t prefer a gentle watercolor of chaos over a crisp, photorealistic one?
As I ponder my solitary, inevitable demise (I mean, why not end on a cheery note?), let me leave you with this: they might soon program Gemini to laugh at us. But until then, we'll laugh first, often alone, but hey, at least we’re in good, albeit confused, company.
Based on the original article "Google Says It Fixed Image Generator That Failed to Depict White People".
