Here's the problem for Google: Gemini pukes out a perfect visual representation of actual systemic racism that pervades throughout modern corporate culture in the US. Daily interactions can be masked by platitudes and dog whistles. A poster of non-white celtic warriors cannot. Gemini refused to create an image of "a nice white man", saying it was "too spicy", but had no problem when asked for an image of "a nice blac…
Seems like all they need to do is, when prompted to generate images of people, ask for clarification on whether the user wants to constrain the appearance, use the default output of the model, or otherwise offer to modify the prompt to reduce biases or however they would describe it. Doesn't even have to be interactive, just a note on the side would be enough.
Ultimately the only "real" concern was silently perpetuating biases, as long as it isn't silent and the user is made aware of the options, who cares? You'll never be able to baby-proof these things enough to stop "bad actors" from generating whatever they want without compromising the actual usage