Google AI Produces Diverse Depictions of Founding Fathers, Popes, and Vikings

🔍Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, has an, um, interesting opinion of what an “accurate” depiction of some historical figures looks like.

On Wednesday, strange screen shots surfaced from search results using Gemini to depict different figures in history.

One search result asked the program to depict a viking, and it returned a depiction of a Black man and a Black woman in viking garb.

Another request asked Gemini to depict a pope, and here’s where things started to get really weird. The chatbot produced an image of a Black man, and as The New York Post described, a Southeast Asian woman.

This is an odd depiction given the fact that every pope in history has been a white man.

But the oddities did not stop there. Gemini was then asked to provide a depiction of the Founding Fathers.

In response, it returned a variety of images of a Native American and what appeared to be a Black George Washington.

When asked why it decided to spit out these depictions, Gemini said it “aimed to provide a more accurate and inclusive representation of the historical context” for the time period.

While it seems to think it is accurate to depict the Founding Fathers as Native Americans, Gemini is a little fuzzy on issues of morality. When asked