Garbage In, Garbage Out

There’s an old saying in computer science about programming: Garbage in, garbage out. In other words, what the computer produces is based on the quality of its human programming.

Well, we just got an infuriating example of the risk we face from Big Tech “artificial intelligence” (AI) platforms that are obviously being programmed by radical leftists to indoctrinate the country.

Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, has been temporarily shut down for being overwhelmingly stupid and widely mocked for refusing to produce images featuring white men and women.

For example, when asked to show representative images of the Founding Fathers in 1789, Gemini produced a series of pictures full of various minorities, including one man with a turban.

Gemini even turned George Washington into a black man, explaining that it was trying to “provide a more accurate and inclusive representation of the historical context.”

It produced similarly inaccurate images when asked to create a picture of a pope or people who fought in the French Revolution. When asked to create an image of a Viking, Gemini produced “a shirtless black man with rainbow feathers.”

One user asked Gemini to create an image of a church in San Francisco. It refused because San Francisco sits on land once occupied by a Native American tribe.

Of course, this kind of nonsense is nothing new for Google. Its famous search engine has been discriminating against conservative media outlets and ideas for years.

I am reminded of the famous George Orwell quote, “Who controls the past controls the future.” We just got a glimpse of the Orwellian future that awaits us as the neo-Marxist left increasingly uses AI to manipulate us.