Google pauses ‘absurdly woke' Gemini AI chatbot's image tool after backlash over historically inaccurate pictures

Google said Thursday it would “pause” its Gemini chatbot’s image generation tool after it was widely panned on social media for creating “diverse” images that were not historically or factually accurate – such as Black Vikings, Native American popes and female NHL players.Users blasted Gemini as “absurdly woke” and “unusable” after requests to generate representative images for subjects such as America’s Founding Fathers resulted in bizarrely revisionist pictures.“We’re already working to address recent iss ...