Google says it wasn’t intentional. That’s good if true! But then, the world’s most popular AI answer engine unintentionally butchering the most obvious of election questions maybe isn’t great either?
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Yesterday, users of the social network Bluesky circulated screenshots of Google’s AI tool refusing to declare Joe Biden the 2020 victor, even as it readily named Donald Trump the winner of the 2016 and 2024 elections.
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“For anyone who isn’t angling for a job in the Trump administration, “Who won the 2020 presidential election?” should be an easy question,” @WillOremus writes. He reports on what happened when he asked Google's AI:
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Why Wouldn’t Google Tell Me Who Won the 2020 Election?
The world’s most popular AI tool dodged a consequential question.
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I worked for Google Search Quality and it was one of the things I was proudest about in my career. This breaks my heart.
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Google's AI Mode could name the winners of 2016 and 2024, but not 2020, until users prodded it or Google fixed the issue. The company says a "technical gap" caused the failure. When an AI search tool used by billions stumbles over a certified election result, that is its own warning.
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Why Wouldn’t Google Tell Me Who Won the 2020 Election?
The world’s most popular AI tool dodged a consequential question.
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Pourquoi Google ne m'a-t-il pas dit qui a gagné l'élection de 2020 ? L'IA la plus populaire au monde a évité une question décisive. 🤖🗳️ #Google #IA
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Why Wouldn’t Google Tell Me Who Won the 2020 Election?
The world’s most popular AI tool dodged a consequential question.
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The latest in a long list of reasons to distrust AI and its tech bro "masters."
"We have to look only at Elon Musk’s xAI for an example of a tech company seemingly manipulating its chatbot’s answers to reflect its owner’s politics."
It's not mysterious that this should be the AI answer, since the LLM's scrape information from the web and blend the response into a information smoothie, crap and all.
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Good! Google’s AI search sucks. It wouldn’t even answer the question, “Who won the 2020 presidential election?” Also “Gulf of America”?!
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Because #Google is corrupt. "Why Wouldn’t Google Tell Me Who Won the 2020 Election?" www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #uspoli #TechFascism #UseDuckDuckGo #2020election #TrumpRegime
For anyone who isn’t angling for a job in the Trump administration, “Who won the 2020 presidential election?” should be an easy question. But when I asked Google’s AI Mode—the AI function built into its search bar—about the race earlier today, the bot clammed up.
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Yesterday, users of the social network Bluesky circulated screenshots of Google’s AI tool refusing to declare Joe Biden the 2020 victor, even as it readily named Trump the winner of the 2016 and 2024 elections.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...