According to Reuters, local time on the 26th,Google “We’re offline,” DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said during a panel discussion at MWC 2024. Gemini The portrait generation function,We are currently fixing the issue and hope to be back online in the next few weeks.”
Demis said:Gemini's portrait generation feature "did not work as we expected"Google launched Gemini's portrait generation feature earlier this month, but some users pointed out that the images of historical figures generated by the feature were sometimes inaccurate. Google then suspended the feature and planned to re-release an improved version.
Some users reported that Gemini generated people of various genders and races in the pictures, even if the generated results did not match historical facts.For example, in the picture with the theme of "American Founding Father Washington", women and people of color appear.. Some netizens also found that,It's embarrassing to get Gemini to admit that white people exist”.
Google said in its statement:We are aware that Gemini "provided inaccurate information in some historical image generation descriptions" and will be fixing it immediately.
Subsequently, Google announced on February 22Pause Gemini's character image generation, working hard to resolve recent issues related to Gemini's image generation functionality and will re-release an improved version soon.