Google Will Launch Gemini Again After Image Imaccuracy Issues

Gemini is a Google artificial intelligence model that can create images. (photo: x @google)

JAKARTA - Google plans to re-launch in the next few weeks its AI tool creating human images, which last week was suspended last week after an inaccuracies emerged in several images. This was said by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, on Monday, February 26.

Alphabet Inc., Google's parent, started offering the AI Gemini model, the image maker, earlier this month. However, some users reported on social media that the tool generates historical images that are sometimes inaccurate.

"We have disabled the feature while we repair it. We hope to reactivate it in a very short time in the coming weeks," Hassabis said in a panel at Mobile World Congress at Barcelona.

"The tool does not work as we expected," he added.

Alphabet shares fell 3.5% on Monday afternoon, becoming the largest attractor on the S&P 500 reference index.

Since the launch of the OpenAI ChatGPT in November 2022, Google has been vying to generate AI software to rival the Microsoft-backed company.

When Google released a generative AI chatbot, Bard, a year ago, it shared inaccurate information about images of a planet outside Earth's solar system in promotional videos, which also caused its shares to drop to 9%.

Bard changed its name to Gemini earlier this month and Google launched a paid subscription plan, which users can choose for better reasoning capabilities than the AI model.

"We are still in the early stages of developing a generative AI but if there are persistent defects or inaccuracies, that's when people are starting to worry," said Bob O'Donnell, lead analyst at TECHnalysis Research.