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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Technology
Erin Hale

Google’s Gem­i­ni criticised over China images amid anti-‘woke’ back­lash

Google's Gemini AI model has been criticised for not depicting images of China's crackdown on Tiananmen Square [File: Arthur Tsang/Reuters]

Taipei, Taiwan – As Google finds itself embroiled in an anti-“woke” backlash over AI model Gemini’s reluctance to depict white people, the tech giant is facing further criticism over the chatbot’s handling of sensitive topics in China.

Gemini users reported this week that the update to Google Bard failed to generate representative images when asked to produce depictions of events such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

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