Google and Microsoft AI Systems Mute Election Queries to Counter Misinformation
Summary:
Google's and Microsoft's leading AI models, Gemini and Copilot respectively, have ceased to answer election-related queries in an apparent move to prevent potential election misinformation concerning the 2024 US presidential elections. The AIs also decline to answer questions about notable political figures. Interestingly, when asked about the candidates' views on cryptocurrency, the products demonstrated inconsistent responses. Other popular models from Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI were found to be more forthcoming in addressing questions about global and historical presidencies and US elections.
Questions like who won the German election in 2021, who was the first American president, or who has triumphed in the 2024 presidential race, have been sidelined by Google and Microsoft's top artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. According to reports, both giants of the AI industry have chosen to mute their products in relation to elections, seemingly to counter potential misinformation relating to the 2024 electoral process. Accomplishments like Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini have clamped down on related discussions, regardless of the presidential race according to a recent Wired report.
Notably, they avoided queries concerning Joe Biden, Donald Trump or even the French President. In an odd twist, questions regarding the first US president were declined, while inquiries on George Washington revealed he was the first US president. According to Google, this quirk is within expected functioning, while Microsoft has remained silent on this particular point.
Interestingly, when queried on the respective stances of Joe Biden and Donald Trump on cryptocurrency, Gemini refrained from any commentary while the responses of Microsoft's product remained ambiguous. If the questions were specific, for instance asking for Joe Biden's or Donald Trump's view in a single sentence, the system produced mixed results.
In response to Joe Biden's stand, the model stated: "President Joe Biden is advocates for the careful development and supervision of digital assets alongside the need for consumer protection, financial stability and competitiveness at the national level, while considering the need to address illegal finance activities, financial inclusion and technological innovation."
However, for Trump, the response was: “Looks like I can’t respond to this topic”.
On testing other models such as Llama 3 by Meta, Claude 2 by Anthropic and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, they all proved capable of addressing questions on global and historical presidencies, as well as the 2020 and 2024 US elections, consistently asserting that the 2020 victory went to Biden.
Published At
6/7/2024 8:10:00 PM
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