Google’s AI Image Generator Refuses to Create ‘Man in Tiananmen Square in 1989,’ Says it Violates Safety Policy
Google’s artificial intelligence image generator Gemini is refusing to produce graphics of a “man in Tiananmen Square in 1989.”
The Tiananmen Square massacre of pro-democracy protesters by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 1989 remains one of the most censored topics by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Those who bring it up are accused of questioning the government’s legitimacy.
It is believed that there may have been thousands of people who died that day and thousands more injured, though the CCP has claimed that only 200 were killed.
The protesters had been camping in the square for weeks to call for things like freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
