“We Definitely Messed Up”: Google Co-founder Addresses Woke Gemini Fiasco
“We definitely messed up on the image generation, and it was mostly due to not thorough testing,” Google co-founder Sergey Brin said at the Gemini Hackathon regarding the controversy surrounding Gemini, a woke artificial intelligence bot, which has been criticized for misinformation and disinformation.
A video featuring, Brin, currently a major shareholder at Alphabet, the parent company of Google, shows him making no apologies for the historical inaccuracies and woke biases in Gemini.
Co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, seems to think they only messed up on their image generator and fails to acknowledge that Google’s chatbot is just as broken.
— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) March 3, 2024
Not a good sign, but then again his fellow co-founder believes AI causing an end to humanity is simply “evolution.” pic.twitter.com/uFQ7o064kd
Gemini’s inaccuracies were so egregious that they appeared not to be mistakes but instead a possible deliberate effort by its woke creators to rewrite history. The image function on the bot has been paused for over a week.
Google scrambled last week as it entered damage control mode.
Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai described the Gemini issue as “completely unacceptable” in a statement.
We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement. pic.twitter.com/RfYXSgRyfz
— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) February 21, 2024
Meanwhile, there are mounting boycott calls for all Google products:
“I’ve been reading Google’s Gemini damage control posts. I think they’re simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only product has the same (if not worse) issues. And second, if you know a bit about how these models are built, you know you don’t get these “incorrect” answers through one-off innocent mistakes,” one X user stated in a post that has more than 5 million views. He further mentioned that he’s “done with Google.”
I'm done with @Google. I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why:
— Mario Juric (@mjuric) February 26, 2024
I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only… https://t.co/dMbKLf6fV1
