Hot Air Reports: “When you have a broken culture," Shaun Maguire laments, "you’re just going to keep creating broken products. The Google Gemini images merely confirmed what I already knew.” Maguire is no disinterested observer, either. He spent three years as an investment partner at Google Ventures, until its relentless DEI authoritarianism forced him to look elsewhere for a "performance culture."

Maguire and several other ex-Googlers spoke to The Free Press about the disastrous rollout of Google's Gemini AI, which infamously projected its wokeness into its image and text products. Black and Asian Nazis are the least of the problems, Maguire and the others warn, because Gemini didn't malfunction at all. Gemini did exactly what Google wants to do overall -- create a reality on its own DEI and CRT terms rather than reflect objective reality and honest information-sharing:

“When the first Google Gemini photos popped up on my X feed, I thought to myself: Here we go again. And: Of course. Because I know Google well. Google Gemini’s failures revealed how broken Google’s culture is in such a visually obvious way to the world. But what happened was not a one-off incident. It was a symptom of a larger cultural phenomenon that has been taking over the company for years.”

Maguire is one of multiple former Google employees who told The Free Press that the Gemini fiasco stems from a corporate culture that prioritizes the ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over excellence and good business sense. 

These ex-Googlers, as they’re called, said that they were discouraged from hiring white, male employees; that DEI “is part of every single thing” in the company; and that engineers even had to list the “DEI impact” for the tiniest of software fixes. All of them agreed that the Silicon Valley giant entered the artificial intelligence race with an upper hand but has squandered it by cowing to an activist faction in the company that’s more committed to advancing social justice than making world-class products.

It's not as if we didn't have warning signs about Google's perversion from an information portal to a manipulative DEI struggle session. Even before Maguire took his job in 2016, others in the tech industry tried to warn him that Google had abandoned technological advances for social engineering and had become a difficult environment in which to work.