Nazis

Google explains Gemini’s ‘embarrassing’ AI pictures of diverse Nazis

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Google has issued an explanation for the “embarrassing and wrong” images generated by its Gemini AI tool. In a blog post on Friday, Google says its model produced “inaccurate historical” images due to tuning issues. The Verge and others caught Gemini generating images of racially diverse Nazis and US Founding Fathers earlier this week. “Our … Read more

Google apologises after Gemini AI generates images of Nazis as people of colour

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Google has paused its Gemini AI tool (formerly Bard)’s ability to generate images of people. The company also issued an apology after the tool was found to be generating historically inaccurate illustrations, including depictions of Nazi soldiers as people of colour. SEE ALSO: Google announces Gemini 1.5, a flashy upgrade to its flagship AI model … Read more

Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer

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Platformer, the tech newsletter started by Verge alum Casey Newton, is leaving Substack over its policies around and response to pro-Nazi publications using the platform. Newton notes that after identifying seven Substack publications “that conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence against Jews, among other groups,” the platform removed one on … Read more

Sidewalk plaques commemorating Romans deported by Nazis are vandalized in Italian capital

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Italian politicians and Jewish leaders are condemning the antisemitic vandalizing of four memorial plaques ByThe Associated Press November 1, 2023, 12:02 PM ROME — Italian politicians and Jewish leaders have condemned the vandalizing this week of four tiny memorial plaques embedded in sidewalks in front of apartment buildings where Roman Jews were living when they … Read more

Opposition lawmakers call on Canada’s House speaker to resign for honoring man who fought for Nazis

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian opposition parties called on the speaker of the House of Commons to resign Monday for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president. Peter Julian, the New Democratic Party House leader, and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois … Read more

Leader of Canada’s House of Commons apologizes for honoring man who fought for Nazis

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TORONTO — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons apologized Sunday for recognizing a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II. Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an address in the House of Commons on Friday, Canadian lawmakers gave 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka a standing ovation when Speaker Anthony Rota … Read more

How Oppenheimer constructed an atomic bomb earlier than the Nazis

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In Nazi Germany in 1938, scientists achieved the exceptional: they cut up an atom. When physicists at Princeton heard the information, they grew to become a “stirred-up ant heap.” Past the excitement of the invention, different repercussions grew to become rapidly obvious: Not solely did this occasion, known as nuclear fission, create two smaller atoms, … Read more