Google suspends Gemini chatbot's ability to generate pictures of people

Google said Thursday it’s temporarily stopping its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from generating images of people a day after apologizing for “inaccuracies” in historical depictions that it was creating. Gemini users this week posted screenshots on social media of historically white-dominated scenes with racially diverse characters that they say it generated, leading critics to raise questions about whether the company is over-correcting for the risk of racial bias in its AI model. Google said in a social media post that it's “working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature.” It said will “pause the image generation of people” and release an improved version soon.