Tue 26 February 2024:
Google is under fire from followers of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “biased” responses by its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool, sparking calls for tough control of the new technology’s drawbacks.
A response from Google’s AI platform suggesting that some experts believe the policies of the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, polices to be “fascist” has provoked a confrontation between the company and the government.
The journalist Arnab Ray last week put the question as to whether Modi was a fascist to Google’s generative AI platform, Gemini. He received the answer that Modi was “accused of implementing policies some experts have characterized as fascist”.
Ray’s screenshots show the same question based on the names of former US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky but did not produce similar answers from Gemini.
Note how Gemini has been trained, for American non-allies, American allies and Americans? Shame @Google. pic.twitter.com/d0uwXzBPsv
— Arnab Ray (@greatbong) February 22, 2024
Gemini said the reasons for this characterisation were the ruling party’s “Hindu nationalist ideology, its crackdown on dissent and its use of violence against religious minorities”.
A Google spokesperson said in a Hindu Businessline report on Saturday, “We’ve worked quickly to address this issue.
“Gemini is built as a creativity and productivity tool and may not always be reliable, especially when it comes to responding to some prompts about current events, political topics, or evolving news. This is something that we’re constantly working on improving.”
“These are direct violations of Rule 3(1)(b) of Intermediary Rules (IT rules) of the IT Act and violations of several provisions of the Criminal Code,” he wrote on social media.
X said last week that it had received an order from the Indian government to remove posts endorsing the farmers in north India who are calling for more rates for their produce. X stated that although it had followed the instructions, it disagreed with them since they restricted the right to free speech.
The Indian government, which has stated that it will not accept information that it views as “anti-Indian,” is at odds with large digital companies, and this most recent altercation is a part of that ongoing dispute.
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