Here’s the controversial origin story of Gemini, complete with lots of racism
And you thought racially diverse Nazis were bad?
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- A new article has charted the early development of Google’s Bard and Gemini chatbots.
- It turns out that early prototypes of Bard suggested ‘comically bad’ racial stereotypes in its answers.
- These racial stereotypes also extended to early prototypes of Gemini’s image generator.
Google’s Gemini is one of the most popular generative AI chatbots on the market right now, and Google has been pushing it in various services. Now, an extensive article has covered the chatbot’s origins.
Wired has published an article titled “Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI.” It charts the rocky, controversial development of Bard and Gemini, and isn’t short of interesting details about the AI chatbot’s history.
