What Google Gemini’s Race Controversy Really Means

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The internet kicked up a fuss this week when it discovered a surprising thing about Google Gemini, the company’s generative artificial intelligence tool. While you couldn’t prompt it to, say, provide an image of a white pope, it did respond to a request asking for a Black pope. It also seemed to have a habit of placing nonwhite characters in settings that may present historical inaccuracies. In response, Google suspended Gemini’s image generation entirely.

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