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Google has paused image generation capabilities for the Gemini AI chatbot after it was marred in several controversies over the new feature..
The Mountain view California-based company admitted that Gemini was offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions" and promised to re-release an improved version of the feature soon..
While issuing a statement on X about Gemini's text-to-image generation capabilities, Google wrote, Were working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately..
Gemini soon got into controversy over its image generation capabilities with many users accusing it of being too woke when generating historical images that consequently stirred up a storm on X (formerly Twitter)..
Users soon started saying that it was hard to get even Gemini to acknowledge the existence of white people with the chatbot refusing to give an image of happy white man while giving a valid response for an image of white black people"..
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