After making racially diverse Nazis, Google limits AI image creation
Black Nazi soldiers and people of colour colonial settlers - recent images generated by Google's AI appear to be taking diversity too far. Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa

Google is no longer allowing its Gemini AI software to generate images of people after it was found that its efforts to display more people of color led to inaccurately diverse depictions of history. After images emerged on social media of racially diverse Nazi soldiers and American colonial settlers, the tech giant admitted that in some cases the depiction did not correspond to historical context and that the image generation would be temporarily limited. At the same time, Google defended its efforts to make AI-generated images more diverse, even if the company was "missing the mark" in this...