Google is Racist
TLDR:
After they launched they very much promising Gemini 1.5 last week, and it was rolled out to people, people noticed the image model was racist, it wouldn't generate pictures of white or hispanic people 🤦. Eventually Google apologized and disabled Gemini image generation until they learn how to be more inclusive.
Long Story:
Google fucked up big time this week.
- They have the least inclusive image generation algorithm in the world
- They accidentally announced that they will discontinue Gmail!
- They already killed an AI product.
Last week Google Announced Gemini 1.5 a promising LLM, that uses a unique and new technique, but along it they introduced a new policy inside the algorithm, that was mean to protect results against biased information and output. However they kinda turned the knob to the max, and now Gemini won't generate images of white people.
Now when somebody was asking for an image of the US senators of the 1800s the output was a little unrealistic, as it didn't contain a single white person it it. So naturally people got kinda offended, but not too ofended.
You'd be like, "yeah, fuck those whities dominating everything 🖕".
The major idiocracy is that people asked for images of nazis, and they were all ethnicities but white. That escalated quickly – and the Internet got offended really fast. Because nobody can be a nazi, but a white man, with a short mustache and a very offensive hair style.
Eventually Google had to disable the image generation until they learn how to become a more inclusive company, and stop brainwashing their own employees.
Next Fuck-up by Google
was an email sent to Google's SVP Chris Bakke, which said, please announce that we're sunsetting Gemini team, which Chris read as Gmail. As a result, the 1.5 billion user base of gmail, almost saw an email where google announced that they are killing another of their product. I mean, wouldn't it be fucking ridiculous if it'd happen? Oh we're living on such a fine edge. Loosing my email would be like loosing my entire life, and I trust it completely to one and only single company. Google... oh uh.. I should maybe reconsider my life choices.
Fuckup by Google Number 3
was they killed Bard.
Google has a very wide spread tendency to kill products, if there isn't enough traction for them, they don't consider it a viable/interesting product, so they just kill it. For an entire list with a RIP stones see https://killedbygoogle.com/. They try to maintain a decent track of former google products.
Well it's time for Bard to join the rankings, because with the launch of gemini, google replaced entirely bard. RIP Bard 2023 - 2024
