Comment by dekhn

The argument I think you're making is "0.0001% of scottish people in the 16th century were black, so it's not realistic to criticize google if it produces historical images of scottish people where >25% of the individuals are black".

If you take the totality of examples given (beyond the scottish one), it's clear there's nothing specific about scotland here, the problem is systemic, and centered around class and race specifically. It feels to me- consistent with what many others have expressed- that Google specifically is applying query rewrites or other mechanisms to generate diversity where it historically did not exist, with a specific intent. That's why they shut down image generation a day after launching.