In what is being viewed as the latest setback in its attempts to overtake rivals OpenAI and Microsoft, Google has decided to halt its artificial intelligence tool that generates images of individuals based on historical depictions that contain errors. Google is owned by Alphabet.

Earlier this month, Google began to offer image production through its Gemini AI models. However, during the past few days, some users on social media have noted that the model occasionally produces erroneous historical photographs.

“We’re aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions,” Google had said on Wednesday.

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released in November 2022, Google has been vying to release AI software that can compete with that of the Microsoft-backed startup.

A year prior to the launch of its generative AI chatbot Bard, Google posted false information in a promotional film regarding images of a planet outside of our solar system, which sent shares plunging as much as 9%.

Earlier this month, Google renamed Bard as Gemini and introduced paid membership plans that users could select from to improve the AI model’s capacity for reasoning.

“Historical contexts have more nuance to them and we will further tune to accommodate that,” said, Jack Krawczyk, Senior Director of Product for Gemini at Google, on Wednesday.

(Adapted from TechCrunch.com)

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