Google Co-founder Sergey Brin Blames Gemini for Image Generation Errors

Google was dragged into a contentious situation when a number of users worldwide accused its AI chatbot, Gemini (formerly Bard), of being racist and "too woke".

Gemini began to refuse to produce pictures of white people and instead portrayed a number of historical personalities as people of color, despite the fact that they were white at first. Online discourse about Gemini quickly ensued as a result of this.

In response to the entire affair, Google co-founder and former president Sergey Brin has stated that the business did "mess up" picture production and that this was because there was little testing done.

Co-founder of Google and Gemini

Seldom seen in public, Brin gave a speech on Saturday at the AGI House in San Francisco. He came out of retirement to tell a group of people testing Gemini that the future of artificial intelligence is really promising.

Brin stated, "We definitely messed up on the image generation," and added that, in his opinion, the absence of testing is what caused the entire situation to occur. "It, for good reasons, upset a lot of people," 

Google was founded in 1998 by Brin and Larry Page; however, in 2019, Brin resigned as president of Alphabet. He stepped down, but he still holds a sizable stake in the business and serves on the board.

He's apparently returned to Google now to help the company become more visible in the fiercely competitive AI space. In conversations on Saturday, Brin made it clear that some of his answers were private and not on behalf of the corporation.

Gemini will soon make a comeback.

Following the entire incident, Google has disabled Gemini's capacity to produce Human figures. Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, announced last week that the AI tool will return in a "couple of weeks".

According to Reuters, Hassabis stated that they are addressing the inadequacies of the AI tool, Gemini and that things didn't really work out the way they were intended. He also mentioned that Gemini's halted feature will return in a few weeks.

"We care, of course, about historical accuracy, and so we've taken that feature offline while we fix that, and we hope to have that back online in very short order, the next couple of weeks, a few weeks," he continued.

He went on to say that the tool was not "working the way we intended".

The current response you receive when attempting to create a picture of a person in Gemini is as follows: "We are working to improve Gemini's ability to generate images of people." We anticipate having this functionality back shortly, and we'll let you know when it happens through release updates."