Google’s disastrous launch of its Gemini AI program has been viewed as yet another skirmish in the long-running culture wars. Certainly, Gemini reflects the progressive biases of its Silicon Valley creators. But the debacle offers more than a lesson on the dangers of “woke-ism.” It also provides insight on the collision between AI and copyright, a subject this blog has examined before.
Before turning to the copyright issue, let’s explore what went wrong with the launch.
Google designed Gemini to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and other AI products. Unlike its rivals, which generally deal with one type of prompt, Google designed Gemini to be “multimodal,” meaning that it could accept inputs in many different media, including text, images, audio, and video.
The Company boasted that Gemini outperformed its rival AI models across dozens of benchmarks including reading comprehension, mathematical ability, and multistep reasoning skills. But the fanfare surrounding its launch was quickly replaced by ridicule, as users tried it and discovered a number of glaring quirks.
A search for images of Nazi soldiers generated an absurd collage of racial inclusiveness.
(Gemini images republished by The Verge.)
Searches for pictures of Founding Fathers, Vikings, and popes –categories exclusively white — also generated multiracial images. But paradoxically, with no whites.
(Gemini images republished by Reason Magazine.)
In brief, Gemini produced results that looked like DEI on steroids.
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