There is another news for the talk of the town technology, which is AI. AI has been exploding and proliferating for being generative, however this story mentions how Google is making to the headlines by being restrictive with AI.
Google’s Gemini Limits Queries Around Election Queries
In a recent development, Google has restricted its AI chatbot Gemini to answer questions that pertain to the global elections that shall happen this year. This has been undertaken as a part of avoiding any potential missteps in the deployment of the technology.
This especially comes in the light of ever evolving AI generative technology, which generates image as well as video, and its potential misuse by miscreants to spread misinformation and fake news among the public. The fanned concerns around the same have led to governments regulating the technology.
Google has adjusted the answers of Gemini around questions with the upcoming U.S. presidential match-up between Joe Biden and Donald Trump to “I’m still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search”.
Announcing these restrictions within the U.S. in the month of December last year, the company said that the restrictions would come into effect ahead of the election.
As per a company spokesperson, “In preparation for the many elections happening around the world in 2024 and out of an abundance of caution, we are restricting the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses”.
Global Election Preparations
Alongside US, 2024 shall also witness national elections being held in other countries, notably, South Africa and India.
The tech firms of world’s largest democracy, India, have been asked to seek the approval of government before the public release of AI tools that are “unreliable” or under trial, and to label them for the potential to return wrong answers.
The AI products of Google are under the radar after inaccuracies in some historical depictions of people created by Gemini which further forced it to pause the chatbot’s image-generation feature late last month.
Calling the Chabot’s responses “biased” and “completely unacceptable”, CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company is working to fix these issues.
Meta, parent company of Facebook, also said that last month it will set up a team to tackle disinformation and the abuse of generative AI in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June.
