{"id":281238,"date":"2024-05-16T02:33:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=332470"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:29:53","slug":"google-still-hasnt-fixed-its-big-controversy-with-gemini-and-historical-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-still-hasnt-fixed-its-big-controversy-with-gemini-and-historical-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Google still hasn&#8217;t fixed its big controversy with Gemini and historical images"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February, Google paused <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/this-is-gemini-googles-ai-to-compete-with-chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"the ability of its chatbot Gemini to generate images\">the ability of its chatbot Gemini to generate images<\/a> of people after users complained about historical inaccuracies.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Gemini\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/dcc4d6af-b3e7-48ec-96e2-c65903f60bca\/907894193\/gemini-google-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Gemini<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/gemini-google.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/gemini-google.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked to portray &#8220;a Roman legion,&#8221; for example, Gemini showed an anachronistic group of soldiers of diverse races, while the &#8220;Zulu warriors&#8221; were stereotypically black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized<\/strong> and Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google&#8217;s AI research division, DeepMind, said that a solution should arrive &#8220;very soon&#8221;, within the next two weeks. But we are already in May and the promised solution has still not arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Google&#39;s CEO Sundar Pichai is blaming everyone but himself for Google completely screwing up Gemini.<br><br>Did the management spend even 1 minute looking at the product before it went out?<br><br>The problem has much deeper roots than just &quot;historical figures&quot;.<br><br>Why does Gemini lecture\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1CBisTJgDC\">pic.twitter.com\/1CBisTJgDC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sasha Yanshin (@sashayanshin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sashayanshin\/status\/1762823288642732457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An almost impossible problem to solve and the reason is racist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google has presented <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/we-summarize-in-10-minutes-everything-google-announced-about-ai-at-its-i-o-2024-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"many other features of Gemini at its annual I\/O developer conference this week\">many other features of Gemini at its annual I\/O developer conference this week<\/a>, from personalized chatbots to a vacation itinerary planner and integrations with Google Calendar, Keep, and YouTube Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But the generation of people images is still disabled in Gemini applications for web and mobile<\/strong>, as confirmed by a Google spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the reason for the delay? Well, the problem is probably more complex than Hassabis suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google&#039;s AI Racism Scandal\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_xi378HSKpI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The datasets used <strong>to train image generators like Gemini often contain more images of white people than people of other races and ethnicities<\/strong>, and the images of non-white people in those datasets reinforce negative stereotypes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Google, in an apparent effort to correct these biases, implemented a clumsy encoding under the hood.<\/strong> And now it strives to find a reasonable middle ground solution that avoids repeating history.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Gemini\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/dcc4d6af-b3e7-48ec-96e2-c65903f60bca\/907894193\/gemini-google-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Gemini<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/gemini-google.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/gemini-google.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will Google achieve it? Maybe yes. Maybe not. In any case, this endless issue reminds us that <strong>finding a solution for a misbehaving AI is not easy<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/google-still-cannot-be-able-to-identify-gorillas-in-photos-and-the-reason-is-racist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"especially when biases are the cause of the misbehavior.\">especially when biases are the cause of the misbehavior.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The datasets used to train image generators like Gemini often contain more images of white people, and that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":281239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[6524,3885],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-281238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-google-gemini","tag-inteligencia-artificial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313161,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281238\/revisions\/313161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281238"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=281238"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=281238"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=281238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}