SAN FRANCISCO — Images showing people of colour in German military uniforms from World War II that were created with Google’s Gemini chatbot have amplified concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) could add to the internet’s already vast pools of misinformation as the technology struggles with issues around race.
Now Google has temporarily suspended the AI chatbot’s ability to generate images of any people and has vowed to fix what it called “inaccuracies in some historical” depictions.
“We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature,” Google said in a statement posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday. “While we do this, we’re going to pause the image generation of people and will rerelease an improved version soon.”
A user said this week that he had asked Gemini to generate images of a German soldier in…
