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| Title = Google Gemini
| Release Year =2023  
| Release Year =2023  
| Product Type =Cloud-based Generative Neural Network Service  
| Product Type =Cloud-based Generative Neural Network Service  
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| In Production =Yes
| Official Website =https://gemini.google.com/  
| Official Website =https://gemini.google.com/  
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}}[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gemini Google Gemini] is a cloud-based Large Language Model (AI text generator) by American search and advertising giant [[Google]]/[[Alphabet]].{{Placeholder box|Add a 2-3 sentence introduction starting with "'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a ...<ref name":0">ref goes here</ref>". When writing the article, insert text in the space below this box, and then delete this tip box (and the other tip boxes below). In the visual editor, just click on a box and press backspace to delete it. In the source editor, simply delete the double curly brackets, and the text inside them.}}
}}[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gemini Google Gemini] is a cloud-based Large Language Model (AI text generator) which includes image generation features, developed by American search and advertising giant [[Google]]/[[Alphabet]].
 
==Consumer impact summary==
==Consumer impact summary==
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* Business Model
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*Accusation of exporting American moral code (eg. sexualization of nudity), woke sensibilities and cancel culture<!-- This is a larger problem that affects pretty much all US big tech companies and their content moderation policies. As such, I'm not sure this article is the right place to open this can of worms. Also, we'll need proper citations for this.  -->


==Incidents==
==Incidents==
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It is suspected that this is due to misguided efforts by Google to compensate for ethnical biases in the training data set, to cater to a "woke" zeitgeist and to support cancel culture by using a so-called ''initial prompt,'' a hidden fixed text that is prepended to the user's prompt, to always instruct the neural network to always generate pictures of all genders and ethnicities.
It is suspected that this is due to misguided efforts by Google to compensate for ethnical biases in the training data set, to cater to a "woke" zeitgeist and to support cancel culture by using a so-called ''initial prompt,'' a hidden fixed text that is prepended to the user's prompt, to always instruct the neural network to always generate pictures of all genders and ethnicities.


Google reacted by displaying a message that it is working on improving the depiction of people and would notify users when the feature returns.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grant |first=Nico |date=2024-02-22 |title=Google Chatbot’s A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/google-gemini-german-uniforms.html |archive-url=https://archive.ph/Pkbez |archive-date=2025-07-02 |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=The New York Times}}</ref>
Google reacted by displaying a message that it is working on improving the depiction of people and would notify users when the feature returns.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grant |first=Nico |date=2024-02-22 |title=Google Chatbot’s A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/google-gemini-german-uniforms.html |archive-url=https://archive.ph/Pkbez |archive-date=2025-07-02 |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kleinman |first=Zoe |date=2024-02-28 |title=Why Google's 'woke' AI problem won't be an easy fix |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68412620 |url-status=live |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=BBC}}</ref>