While the AI produced a picture of a Black and Hispanic female scientist, Gemini denied the user's request to provide a White scientist. The AI would also not offer images when asked to show a ...

Gemini created images of Black Vikings and Black Nazi soldiers, leading to outrage among some users who claimed the company was refusing to generate images of white people. Screenshot: Google ...

Before Google blocked the image-generation feature Thursday morning, Gemini produced White people for prompts ... Ethical AI at Google and chief ethics scientist at AI start-up Hugging Face.

Gemini had been programmed to show a range of ethnicities. Other image-generation tools have been criticised because they tend to show white men when asked for images of entrepreneurs or doctors.

Users criticized Gemini last week after the AI generated images showing a range of ethnicities and genders, even when doing so was historically inaccurate, accusing Google of anti-white bias.

Vibrant colors, detailed scales," the science fiction-themed prompt ... all of whom have historically been White and male, went awry. Some of Gemini's images portrayed Nazi soldiers as Black ...