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Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers

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Re: Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers

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Post by zith »

This sounds sane to me. I don't think people in general have a good understanding of how these generative AI products produce their answers, and I think many would assume hallucinated information to be true.

This is bad in all cases, but certainly misinformation in the democratic process is up there with the worst. Of course, perhaps more importantly for Google, it's a PR disaster waiting to happen when Gemini starts touting incorrect information seemingly supporting one political party or another.

Re: Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers

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ImHereToVote wrote: post #3

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Litigation, perhaps? Google is already being hit on multiple fronts over being a anti-trust violations, invading privacy, and a litany of other issues over the past decade. spreading false news on a domestic election with very premature tech that is not fully within their control would just be the cherry on top.

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internet_toucan wrote: post #7
ImHereToVote wrote: post #3

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What do you mean by this, do you mean actively and purposefully controlling elections? Do you have any sources on this?

Sure. Here is a deposition that goes fairly in-depth:

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Epstein%20Tes...

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