Interview on Google’s Gemini AI Image Issues

I had the chance to speak with the BBC World Service’s World Business Report about the recent challenges Google has had with images generated by Gemini (the successor to Bard). Here are my comments in a 5-minute audio file. One of my tweets on the matter was also quoted by the Financial Times (archived non-paywall link is here) yesterday:

Rob Leathern, who worked on products related to privacy and security at Google until last year, said on X: “It absolutely should not assume that certain generic queries are a particular gender or race, (eg software engineer) and I have been glad to see that change.”

He added: “But when it explicitly adds [a gender or race] for more specific queries it comes across as inaccurate. And it may actually hurt the positive intention for the former case when folks get upset.”

Source: DALL-E