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The Deeper Problem With Google’s Racially Diverse Nazis

The Deeper Problem With Google’s Racially Diverse Nazis

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Generative AI is not built to honestly mirror reality, no matter what its creators say. Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Source: Keystone-France / Getty February 26, 2024, 5:52 PM ET Is there a right way for Google’s generative AI to create fake images of Nazis? Apparently so, according to the company. Gemini, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, was shown last week to generate an absurd range of racially and gender-diverse German soldiers styled in Wehrmacht garb. It was, understandably, ridiculed for not generating any images of Nazis who were actually white. Prodded further, it seemed to actively resist generating images of white people altogether. The company ultimately apologized for “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions” and paused Gemini’s ability to generate images featuring people. The situation was played for laughs on the cover of the New York Post and elsewhere, and Google, which did not respond to a request for comment, said it was endeavoring to fix the problem. Google Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan explained in a blog post that the company …

Don’t be fooled by the AI apocalypse

Don’t be fooled by the AI apocalypse

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A guide to understanding which fears are real and which aren’t Illustration by The Atlantic November 16, 2023, 2:14 PM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, an eight-week series in which The Atlantic’s leading thinkers on AI will help you understand the complexity and opportunities of this groundbreaking technology. Sign up here. Executive action, summits, big-time legislation—governments around the world are beginning to take seriously the threats AI could pose to society. As they do, two visions of the technology are jostling for the attention of world leaders, business magnates, media, and the public. One sounds like science fiction, in which rogue robots extinguish humanity or terrorists use AI to accomplish the same. You aren’t alone if you fear the coming of Skynet: The executives at the helm of the very companies developing this supposedly terrifying technology—at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and elsewhere—are the ones sounding the alarm that their products could end the world, and efforts to regulate AI in the U.S. and the U.K. are already parroting those prophecies. But many advocates and academics say …