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> Exmaple: Google image search for "Software Developer" and you get results such that there will be the same amount of women and men event though men make up the large majority of software developers.

Now do an image search for "Plumber" and you'll see almost 100% men. Why tweak one profession but not the other?

Because one generates controversy and the other one doesn't.

Google injecting racial and sexual bias into image search results has also been criticized, and rightly so. I recall an image going around where searching for inventors or scientists filled all the top results with black people. Or searching for images of happy families yielded almost exclusively results of mixed-race (i.e. black and non-black) partners. AI is the hot thing so of course it gets all the attention right now, but obviously and by definition, influencing search results by discriminating based on innate human physical characteristics is egregiously racist/sexist/whatever-ist.

I tried "scientists" and there's definitely a bias towards the US vision of "diversity".

Yes, Google has been gaslighting the internet for at least a decade now.

I think Gemini has just made it blatantly obvious.