Google’s image AI is .. um… what’s the phrase? All kinds of fucked up beyond all recognition.

Just last week, Google was forced to pump the brakes on its AI image generator, called Gemini, after critics complained that it was pushing bias … against white people.

The controversy started with — you guessed it — a viral post on X. According to that post from the user @EndWokeness, when asked for an image of a Founding Father of America, Gemini showed a Black man, a Native American man, an Asian man, and a relatively dark-skinned man. Asked for a portrait of a pope, it showed a Black man and a woman of color. Nazis, too, were reportedly portrayed as racially diverse.

The technical reasons? The AI is trying to compensate for the fact that there are now things like female or persons of color who are attorneys and can be president or VP. Or business leaders.

But of course there’s a freakout because this generated images of the Founders as persons of color. The freakout is by exactly who you’d think.