After branding historic image generation flaws in Google's latest AI deployment, Gemini, a “global disgrace”, biotech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy slams Big Tech's AI creators. criticized and claimed that they were “programmed”. Through incentive structures created by employers.
Google is trying to address concerns about its new AI-powered tool Gemini, which has been hailed as a breakthrough in AI image generation, but which has been over-corrected and produces historically inaccurate photos. People are criticizing them for being “too woke” and labeling them as “too woke.”
Discussion focused on the tool's ability to provide images that historically represent irregular genders and races, such as depicting World War II soldiers and America's Founding Fathers as women and people of various ethnic backgrounds. ability and deviates from reality.
Ramaswamy weighs in on the debate surrounding Google's AI chatbot Gemini
Ramaswamy said that American-born software engineer and technology guru Marc Lowell Andreessen said the “obviously weird output” was 100 percent intentional, and that big tech AI is a product of designers' It added that it develops content by precisely implementing ideological, extremist and biased goals.
“I know it’s hard to believe, but Big Tech AI produces such results precisely because it carries out the particular ideological, radical, and biased agendas of its creators. “The apparently weird output is 100% intentional. It's working as designed,” Andreessen wrote on billionaire Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter).
“The creators of Big Tech AI are humans who are themselves “programmed” by incentive structures created by their employers. Say the right thing and you'll be rewarded with a cushy, high-paying job; say the wrong thing and you'll be fired like James Damore. This is because he has two layers of programming working,'' Ramaswamy replied.
Who is James Damore?
James Damore, who was fired as a software engineer at Google after writing a sexist manifesto criticizing Google's efforts to reduce gender parity, accused the search engine company of discriminating against conservative white men. insisted.
Damore's controversial 10-page document, posted on Google's internal bulletin board in August, argues that the underrepresentation of women in technology is not due to workplace discrimination, but because of “personality differences” between men and women. claimed to be low.
Earlier, Ramaswamy commented on the Gemini AI issue, calling the Google AI chatbot “blatantly racist” and accusing the company of programming it with “crushing incentives” on its employees.
“The globally embarrassing rollout of Google's LLM proved that James Damore was 100% right about Google falling into an ideological echo chamber. They certainly knew it was wrong to be speciesist, but they probably kept quiet because they didn't want to get fired like Damore. and their employees program the AI with the same biases,” he wrote.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has previously slammed AI chatbots. In a post about ”.
What was Google's response?
Jack Kratschik, senior director at Gemini Experience, acknowledged the problem, adding that while the tool creates diverse populations around the world, it was “missing the mark” in historical circumstances.
“We are working to improve this type of depiction immediately,” he said. Google has temporarily suspended the tool's ability to generate photos of people while it aims to fix the error.
This isn't the first time AI has stumbled when dealing with real-world diversity issues. Google sparked controversy nearly a decade ago when its Photos app incorrectly labeled a photo of a black couple as “gorillas.”
OpenAI, a competitor in the AI space, has also been accused of promoting harmful stereotypes through its Dall-E image generator.
