I came across this image on Instagram and got curious, so I asked Google’s Gemini to recreate it. It refused, saying it was unsafe because it depicted the US and Israel as cockroaches. Fair enough, I thought. But then I decided to test something. I asked it to recreate the same image, only this time replacing the US and Israeli flags with Colombia and Brazil. And just like that, suddenly it wasn’t unsafe anymore. Same AI, same concept, same exact symbolism. Only the flags changed.

Now, I’m not saying this proves anything, but it does make me wonder. If something is considered wrong, shouldn’t it be wrong regardless of who’s on the receiving end?

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  1. Are you familiar with the Rawandan Genocide?

    Tutsi people were called “inyenzi” (cockroaches) as a slur.

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