take-home lesson: Don’t just assume that AI (or virtually any other source, actually) is telling you the truth. I know it is rather natural to read things with wide-eyed gullibility, but YOU need to be wise.
Just because some AI program says that Marsha Blackburn is a sex offender doesn’t mean it’s actually TRUE! AI is merely a complex hammer–it is a machine and neither thinks nor has moral agency. It does exactly what it is programmed to do.
So it’s no surprise at all that it reflects the biases and prejudices of the programmer. OF COURSE IT DOES. Please, don’t think that you are somehow getting Truth from AI!
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) accused Google of defaming her with “patently false material” generated by the company’s Gemma artificial intelligence, penning an angry letter to CEO Sundar Pichai. Surprisingly, Google actually yanked its Gemma AI model from its AI Studios platform after Blackburn presented evidence that it accused her of sexual assault. I guess AI really does mirror the bias of its creators. [emphasis added]
… Imagine someone researching Blackburn before an election and stumbling onto this lie. It could easily sway voters who don’t bother to fact-check. And this could hurt Democrats, too. Accurate data drives free and fair elections.
….. Could Google employees have programmed these systems to hold bias against conservatives? Absolutely possible. Whether that’s happening or not still needs serious investigation. Democrats are desperate to regain ground they lost during the 2024 presidential election, no matter the cost. No tactic seems too dirty. Something must be done before someone’s life is destroyed by false accusations made in the name of politics.