Overview

• Adobe's AI tool Firefly has been found to generate historically inaccurate and racially insensitive images, similar to Google's Gemini.
• Both AI tools have faced backlash for inserting Black and female figures into roles they did not historically occupy, such as America's Founding Fathers and soldiers in Nazi Germany.
• The controversy highlights the challenges in developing AI tools that accurately depict historical events without perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
• Adobe has responded by emphasizing its commitment to responsible innovation and the diversity of its AI models' training datasets.
• Critics argue that these issues reflect not just political bias but also technical shortcomings in the architecture of large language models.