Google Pauses AI-Made Images of People After Race Inaccuracies

  • Critics on X say model is unable to accurately depict races
  • Google said it will re-release an improved version soon
The Gemini logo on a smartphone.Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it will pause the image generation of people for Gemini, a powerful artificial intelligence model, after criticism about how it was handling race.

“We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature,” Google said in a post on X on Thursday. “We’re going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.”