Google CEO Sundar Pichai to employees: ...completely unacceptable and we got it wrong

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has sent a strongly-worded memo to employees on the recent controversy regarding its AI chatbot Gemini's image generation too..

In an internal memo to employees, which first appeared in Semafor, Pichai called the Gemini's responses around race unacceptable and vowed to make structural changes to fix the problem...

Google suspended its Gemini image creation tool last week after it generated embarrassing and offensive results, in some cases declining to depict white people...

Post the controversy, Google publicly apologised for missing the mark and said that its working to re-enable image generation in the coming weeks..

I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard)..

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