Google Restricts Gemini AI on Elections and Politics Over Bias Concerns
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Google has restricted Gemini from answering queries related to elections and politics like questions about candidates, issues, or policies. This was done "out of an abundance of caution" for 2024 elections.
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Queries about Biden, Trump, parties, border, or economy now get a disclaimer instead of an answer. Some political questions worked last week.
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India claims Gemini gave a "biased" response linking Modi to fascism when asked, but not for Trump or Zelenskyy with the same question.
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Google paused Gemini's image generation feature after it created inaccurate or offensive images that downplayed or ignored White people in some cases.
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The restrictions were rolled out at an unspecified date. Google did not confirm exactly when election-related query blocks were implemented.