Gemini's Flawed AI Racial Images Seen As Warning Of Tech Titans' Power

A Google Gemini AI gaffe when it came to creating images on command spotlighted the challenge of eliminating cultural bias in such tech tools without rediculous results (Credit: AFP)

For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google's Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence can give tech titans.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month slammed as "completely unacceptable" errors by his company's Gemini AI app, after gaffes such as the images of ethnically diverse Nazi troops forced it to temporarily stop users from creating pictures of people.