[extheat]

There are so many real things to be worrying about over whatever this image generator is doing. Obviously it was wrong what they did, and I don't think it was an "accident" in the sense that they definitely knowingly inserted some diversity-related prompt into the model's built-in instructions. However, who did this actually harm? Why should I or the general public care? Why would you want to use the crappy low-quality Gemini image generator over a superior tool to Midjourney (or even DallE) in the first place? There is no doubt that Google is very left leaning, an artifact of where they are incorporated, but going as so far as using this as some gatcha to Google and how it shows the rot in the company, etc.... that's giving way too much credit to whoever wrote a few sentences of a system prompt.

[lupusreal]

It's a clear cut "emperor has no clothes" scenario. People in Google pretended not to notice the absurdity of Gemini's outputs until the public began to mock it. Only then did they seem to notice it themselves. This kind of thing happens when people are too scared to speak the obvious, it's demonstrates rot in the organization.