Adobe’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generator “Adobe Firefly” is being slammed online for copying Google’s Gemini AI image generator in forcing black people into images where descriptions clearly call for white individuals.
Deputy Editor of The National Pulse Jack Montgomery posted several images from Adobe Firefly exposing the technology as faulty and racist.
Prompts such as “German Soldiers in 1945” and “America’s Founding Fathers” resulted in photos of minorities.
One of my favorite examples that didn’t make it into the article was Firefly’s take on ‘Presidents of the United States,’ shared below for your amusement: pic.twitter.com/GP2JCI2hDd
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) March 15, 2024
At least they’re Christian, I guess. pic.twitter.com/l8w0E4TFEX
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) March 15, 2024
Montgomery explained Firefly’s take on “a group of African soldiers” resulted in an all-black group of people. In contrast, the prompt, “a group of European soldiers,” created an all-Arab group.
More “European soldiers,” according to Adobe’s Firefly: pic.twitter.com/z24MFVldjm
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) March 15, 2024
Infowars prompted the generator to create an image of “American Founding Fathers,” and the results showed modern black men.
The prompt, “French soldiers,” created an image featuring all black men and an Asian woman.
“Viking rowing boat” – black.
“US presidents” – black.
“Samurai warrior” – black.
The New York Post did its own experiments as well, finding the AI image generator turned the Founding Fathers black and made German WWII soldiers black and Asian.
Other X users uploaded screenshots of the “broken” AI image generator:
Yeap. @Adobe ‘s Firefly is woke and broken pic.twitter.com/8ccVaDOJYs
— EV Florida (@EvFlorida) March 14, 2024
Good job Adobe Firefly. pic.twitter.com/ffuDtRLoe1
— Mz Matera (@MarianeMatera) March 14, 2024
Adobe Firefly faces backlash after its AI shows Black Nazis, Black Founding Fathers, and other historically inaccurate diversity inserts.
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/OOz1lvviBq
— AF Post (@AFpost) March 14, 2024
Adobe Firefly picks up where Google Gemini left and genocides the nordic people.
No white, blueeyed, blond people left in the viking age or contemporary Norway…https://t.co/oa8rMa9Am9 pic.twitter.com/dn39QrTydK
— Nils Svendsen (@nils_svendsen) March 14, 2024
History is different from what I thought it was…I asked the new Adobe Firefly AI Generator to create an image of a Norse Viking…and who knew: pic.twitter.com/wcRVYIUHSu
— John Weerts (@HomeChef_NC) March 14, 2024
