They realized AI did fine at providing on-point images if asked to show either Black African doctors or white suffering children. It was the combination of those two requests that was problematic.

In late September and early October 2024, a black-and-white photograph circulated on social media purportedly showing the "last giant silicon tree" in 1899. The image's caption referenced a theory ...

But as hard as they tried, they could not get a single image where a Black doctor was shown with a white patient. “Out of 150 images of HIV patients, 148 were Black and two were white.