Google Gemini generates historically inaccurate racially diverse images including Black Founding Fathers and diverse Nazi soldiers

Summary

In February 2024, Google's Gemini AI image generator produced historically inaccurate images: US Founding Fathers depicted as Black men, the Pope as a brown woman, and WWII German soldiers as racially diverse. Google had over-engineered diversity correction mechanisms, producing systematic historical distortions. CEO Sundar Pichai called the behavior 'completely unacceptable.' On February 22, 2024, Google paused the image generation feature for people entirely while retooling the system.