Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024.
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Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
@hausfath I wouldn’t say it’s merely deeply problematic. I think it’s part of the whole ordeal.
You’re analysing the problem of technology companies without including the dimension of political and personal power.
You’re issuing benefit of the doubt in a situation which is the technology is already being applied for authoritarian purposes, and those purposes are shaping the technology itself. This is the actual deeply problematic issue in my opinion.
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Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
@hausfath Try duck duck go
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Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
Even Trumps GOV-AI is sure Biden won the 2020 election ...
"I am America, a government information assistant operated by the General Services Administration (GSA) and built by the National Design Studio. I search official U.S. government sources and explain them with citations."
Source: https://america.gov/chat
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@hausfath from Europe the answers are uncensored it appears:
I reproduced Google AI Mode's non-answering of who won the 2020 presidential election from the UK by using Firefox's built-in VPN to give a US location.
Google Maps shows Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America, too.
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@hausfath When asked from Canada, or UK by VPN, Google suppresses AI result; Wikipedia page ranks first.
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Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
@hausfath I wonder if this is geographically influenced. I have a Norwegian IP address, and got this as the first response.
That said, I don't use Google services at all - so I should not have too much clear traces in their tracking machinery.
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Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
@hausfath Can't reproduce here, it's using Britannica for source, and was accurate even if I tweaked the wording.
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Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
@hausfath
That's what it answered to me. I'd rather apply Hanlon's Razor here - Google's Flash-Lite (default for non-subscribed users of Google Gemini) is dumb as doorstop (not that I intend to insult the doorstops). And to its credit, at least it gave the proper link that contains authoritative (and correct) answer. -
Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
@hausfath I am the first one to dunk on Google (and any person still using them as Search after 2019 is responsible for their own suffering), but I think this is more a Hanlon's Razor situation here.
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and co are constantly tinkering their LLMs to give certain answers to certain questions, BUT with LLMs being an unwieldy stochastic monstrosity, my bet is that touching one query or adding one extra guardrail is inevitably messing up another one.
The problem seems not reproducible by most, or not tested thoroughly (how would it answer for all US elections in history?) and seeing this on Arstechnica and resonating on Mastodon seems excessive.
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@hausfath from Europe the answers are uncensored it appears:
@bert_hubert @hausfath I am in Denmark and I don't get that prompt at all.
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