Google's Image Generation AI's Absurd Response "Nazi Army = Asian Race"... Stock Price Plummets 4.5%

On the 26th (local time), the stock price of Alphabet, Google's parent company, closed with a relatively large drop in a single day. This was due to the spread of criticism over a fatal flaw in the image generation feature of Gemini (formerly Bard), a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Google itself.

On that day, Alphabet's stock, listed on the Nasdaq which is centered on tech stocks, closed at $138.75, down 4.5% from the previous session. It was the first time in about 50 days since it fell below $140 on the 5th of last month. The market capitalization also evaporated by about $70 billion in a single day.

The decline is analyzed to be due to the spread of controversy over errors in Gemini's image generation feature.

Gemini made errors distorting historical facts, such as depicting Einstein as a person of color or generating German Nazi soldiers as Asians, leading to the suspension of the image generation service about 20 days after the feature was added. Additionally, critical opinions spread on social networking services (SNS).

In response, Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, Google's AI organization, said, "This feature did not work as we intended," and added, "We plan to reactivate this feature within the next few weeks."

When Bard was launched last year, Google also suffered a 9% plunge in its stock price in one day due to a wrong answer that appeared during a demonstration of the feature. At that time, Bard incorrectly answered that the telescope used to first photograph a planet outside the solar system was the James Webb Space Telescope. The correct answer was the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory.

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