Alphabet (GOOGL) subsidiary Google temporarily suspended some image generation features of its 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:artificial intelligence (AI) 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:services suite Gemini on Thursday. The pause comes after users pub𒆙licized a number of historically inaccurat𝓰e images generated by the service this week.

The controversy started earlier this week when Gemini responded to prompts such as "the Founding Fathers" and "1943 German soldier" with images including people of color. Google said it's aware of the issue and addressing it.

"We're working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately," the company said Wednesday in a post on X. "Gemini’s AI image generation does generate a wide range of people. And that’s generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it’s missing the mark here.”

"As part of our AI principles, we design our image generation capabilities to reflect our global user base, and we take representation and bias seriously. We will continue to do this for open ended prompts (images of a person walking a dog are universal!)," Google Senior Director of Product for Gemini Jack Krawczyk said in a separate post on X.

While Gemini's image generation capacity is on hiatus pending fixes, the AI suite's other applications, including its namesake chatbot (澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:previously named Bard), remain operational. Neverthele🍰ss, the snafu comes at a particularly inopportuneꦜ moment for the tech giant as it continues to grow its AI offerings.

On Wednesday, Google launched Gemini Business, expanding AI ❀serv🅠ices for its Google Workspace customers, and introduced a new generation of AI models called Gemma. When Alphabet announced fourth-quarter earnings at the end of January, CEO 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Sundar Pichai said 🔯AI would be a key driver for a𓆉dvertising and corporate partnership growth in the future.