AI Can Be Racist: Let’s Make Sure It Works For Everyone
ForbesApr 21, 2023
Google Apologizes for Gemini's Historical Inaccuracies
The Facts
Google on Thursday issued an apology after its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini generated historically inaccurate or implausible images in its attempt to be diverse and inclusive.
Google paused image generation by Gemini after several examples of this were posted online, including racially diverse Nazi-era German soldiers and a Black pope. Gemini apparently also failed to generate images of White people.
The Spin
Right narrative
Gemini was designed by humans who seem to think American and European history is too white. So now what was previously assumed about the Big Tech leaders and what they think of Western civilization has become fact. No apology can make up for their clear disregard for actual history.
Narrative C
Gemini and other AI products are in their infancy and it's better to have this debate out in the open than to allow the technology to develop biases one way or another. It will take far more training, but eventually, AI will strike the right balance when it comes to understanding and explaining history.
Nerd narrative
There is a 50% chance that if there is an artificial intelligence catastrophe this century, it will happen by July 2037, according to the Metaculus prediction community.