Google re-releases Gemini people generator after six-month hiatus: report
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- Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) is preparing to re-release the people generating feature of its artificial intelligence assistant Gemini sometime in the next several days, according to a report by TechCrunch on Wednesday.
- Google paused the feature back in February after backlash stemming from how the image generator handled race. At the time, Demis Hassabis, head of the research division at Google DeepMind, said the issue would be resolved “in a very short order.”
- The image generator feature will soon be available to users subscribed to paid Gemini plans, including Gemini Advanced, Business or Enterprise, the report said.
- Google said it has modified Imagen 3, the image-generating model built into Gemini, in order to create “fairness.”
- “Specifically, we evaluate fairness through automated metrics based on the distribution of perceived age, gender, and skin tone in images resulting from generic people-seeking prompts,” according to a DeepMind technical report.