‘Over time, the model became way more cautious than we intended,’ a Google exec says.
Google is sharing more information about what happened to make it pause Gemini’s image generation of people this week.
Earlier this week, Google Senior Director of Product Jack Krawczyk, who is overseeing the AI model’s development, posted on X that the Gemini team was working to adjust the model so it provided historically accurate results.
The post came after many users complained about Gemini creating historical images that depicted people of different races in photos where they likely would have not been present. For instance, Gemini offered a picture of a founding father who was African American and a Native American man and Indian woman as representative of an 1820s-era German couple
That fix turned out to be a bit more complicated than the team originally thought, and early Thursday morning Google disabled the ability to generate images of people with the tool.
