Google Pauses AI Image Tool After It Generates Black, Woman Nazi Soldiers

Google has temporarily stopped its Gemini Artificial Intelligence chatbot from generating images of people. This comes a day after the tech giant issued an apology for “inaccuracies” in historical depictions the chatbot was creating.

The results generated by the tool led to criticism and questions about whether the company was over-correcting for the risk of racial bias in its AI model.

What did Google say about the controversy?

Soon after the controversy, Google released a statement on X (formerly Twitter), saying, “We're already working to address recent issues with Gemini's image generation feature. While we do this, we're going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.”