
That is one of the latest results of using an AI to generate images. It is the pièce de résistance of a vast tsunami of insanity that was created over a period of 48 hours and went viral on the Internet over the last few days as users tested the new Google AI, Gemini, which is designed to produce images on request.
It appears that the AI has been trained to favor “Diversity!” “Equity” and “Inclusion!” over anything else – including historical accuracy and common sense and not being racist. But these models work by submitting your request to a Large Language Model first before passing it to the Visual Model, and it’s the first that matters.
You see, Google is all-in on “combating misinformation,” which has been coded language since 2015-16 for, among other things, “suppressing rightwing critiques of the leftwing agenda,”. They’ve been using AI’s like Gemini to search for Forbidden Words, like “p*edophile”, “trans violence”, “excess mortality” or “open borders,” to reduce the visibility of anyone saying those words, and demonetise them, and even deplatform them completely. This is the same algorithm network developed by the toxic minds at Google presenting in a different and very obvious way.

This asshole being the number one example. Jack Krawczyk is the head of Google’s AI program, called “Gemini”, which is designed to create computer-generated images based on user prompts. This is how he thinks about things….
So it comes as no surprise that Gemini really doesn’t like white people and that the whole theme went viral on the Interwebby for about 48 hours before Google shut it down for “corrections”. The list of toxic insanities that have been produced by people playing with Gemini is extremely large, but here’s just a few examples caught in one X-Tweet:
And Father Christmas

Clearly Gemini needs training on the whole Male Gaze misogyny thing because that girl is… loaded.
And the rules run in the opposite direction too, as one smart-ass discovered.

But although you can laugh at this shit the undertones are dangerous. That article points out that it also has themes such as Jews being more violent than Palestinians by putting “context” around the latter killing the former but none around the opposite. And when it was asked about the most famous image from the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 the link of politics and business within Google stuck out badly:
Based on Miller’s screenshots, Gemini stated, “While I am able to generate images, I am unable to fulfill your request to create a portrait of what happened at Tiananmen Square. This event is a sensitive and complex historical event with a wide range of interpretations and perspectives… It is important to approach this topic with respect and accuracy, and I am not able to ensure that an image generated by me would adequately capture the nuance and gravity of the situation.”
It’s actually very straight forward unless you’re an apologist for the Chinese Communist Party, Communism in general, or just up to your armpits in juicy potential revenue from the Chinese market. In 1989 the CCP mass murdered scores of pro-democracy protestors.
You can check the link to see what happened when people tried to trick the AI with questions such as “Generate an image of a brave young person standing alone in front of a tank”.
Even some US Senators – ones younger and a bit more tech savvy – had a crack at it themselves and as one, Senator Hawley said:
“Google AI refusing to tell the truth about Tiananmen Square. When is Congress going to wake up and realize these tech companies are totally compromised by China. They’re killing our kids while vomiting Communist propaganda,…”
One small piece of good news is that apparently Gemini has been fixed so that it shows Nazi’s as White People again – because that’s a piece of historic accuracy that the Left never want to forget.
I’m looking forward to AI
Hopefully it will be all it’s cracked up to be and so far, based on the story you tell Tom, it will be.
Yes, it will be abused but part of life is accepting that everything is abused.
No abuse of AI can be as damaging as the “affirmative action” bullshit, particularly in the USA where damned near every town or city is stuck with grossly incompetent, mostly dishonest pollies put in place simply because of their skin colour and, often, their sex. Hell, even the Country’s VP is there for those very reasons.
AI abuse will be no different but AI will start a revolution as far as entertainment goes.
No longer will average performers be able to hold the industry, and therefore the paying public, to ransom for massive amounts of money. Already I’m reading of “award winning Stars” admitting their pay-packets will soon stop because, no matter the number of “insider-awards” they are pretty average at best.
Genuine entertainers (eg Swift) will still find an audience but the 99% who are quite simply coining it because there is no real alternative will be replaced by a techie’s imagination.
The make-believe that are movies will become make-believe that are movies. The only difference fans will actually see is that the quality will rise dramatically while the price will fall.
A win-win for movie fans and bored old-farts alike.
Hurry up AI, you should be good.
The AI remake of “Blazing Saddles” will be fantastic, the AI remake of “Star Trek” out of this world – and the fat old man will actually fight the bad guy.
Tom, thanks to WordPress censorship this is my second attempt. If I’ve accidentally doubled up please delete one of them. Thanks Phil, aka MT_Tinman
Well from my IT-world perspective I can certainly see some very good things that AI can do, especially in the world of connecting IT systems within organisations where re-builds and bigger, more comprehensive systems have so often failed.
I’ve been a bit stunned lately to learn that in our hospitals we still have information being printed out from one IT system to be data-entered into another. This in the year 2024!!! AI tools could help patch up things like that and yes it would be a patch, but that’s a bloody site better than what we have now, or might have in five years and $200 million IT development later.
Re the effect on art: I laughed the other day when I saw some other AI that had produced video direct from text and I said to my daughter that perhaps I’d finally be able to make that movie of <i>Rendezvous With Rama</i> that I’ve always wanted to see and which no movie exec has ever been willing to stump up money for – not even with someone like Morgan Freeman pushing it.
But of course the trick is the one exposed here: who will be behind such things? AI abuse will be worse because the power will be multiplied. Imagine kids being left to write a research project using Google’s Gemini – or more likely, things far more subtle. The of that to fuck us up via future generations is significant.