There is so much wrong here I don't know where to start. I keep alternating between laughing and screaming.
From a product launch standpoint, it is like Google released a tool having never tested it. How could they have not known the responses it would produce? Especially given that almost every AI launch has had the same result? It's just negligence, then the CEO acts all surprised and indignant about it like it was someone else who did it. He might as well say "I am so appalled at my own lack of foresight into the obvious..."
Next up, people are surprised that training an AI in a biased world produces biased results. Duh! This one produced the biggest laugh for me:
image generation tools from companies like OpenAI have been criticized when they created predominately images of white people in professional roles and depicting Black people in stereotypical roles.
Well geez, maybe that's because... that's how the world actually is??? We don't like it, we are trying to fix it, but this is not a criticism of AI, this is a criticism of society. If I put a mirror on a random street corner in New York, I bet people would complain that the mirror was biased.
But then it gets better: when the AI did the exact opposite, and made a black pope and black Vikings, THAT too was criticized! There's just no winning here! I really want the next pope to be black, just so that people will shut-up about this one.
This one is good too:
equating Elon Musk’s influence on society with Adolf Hitler’s.
Here is the alleged dialog. LOL. The content isn't awful, it accurately describes the actions and influence of the two men, then just says "meh, it's hard to say!" Well, maybe we shouldn't be putting a newly invented technology at the helm of moral decisions yet.
How about this -- instead of creating guardrails on AI (which will never work because nobody can make guardrails that are acceptable to everyone), lets just laugh at it, watch it improve, and use it where it is applicable.