Sen. Tom Cotton torches Google AI system as 'racist, preposterously woke, Hamas-sympathizing'
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., slammed Google's AI chatbot Gemini as "preposterously woke" on Friday for its refusal to produce any images of White people.
The company paused the chatbot's image generation on Thursday after social media users pointed out that the system was creating inaccurate historical images that sometimes replaced White people, like the Founding Fathers, with images of Black, Native American and Asian people.
"Google deserves condemnation for creating a racist, preposterously woke, Hamas-sympathizing AI system," Cotton said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. "Republican lawmakers will remember this the next time Google comes asking for antitrust help."
Cotton pointed out that "the problem also lies at the White House," which pushed an executive order last year that bolsters "AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights," according to an October Biden-Harris fact sheet.
"This debacle is a good reminder of why federal control over AI would be a disaster," Cotton continued. "It would force every AI system to be as broken and as dishonest as Google's."
GOOGLE TO PAUSE GEMINI IMAGE GENERATION AFTER AI REFUSES TO SHOW IMAGES OF WHITE PEOPLE
On Wednesday, Google apologized for the errors.
"We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions," Google said on Wednesday.
Gemini, formerly known as Google Bard, is one of many multimodal large language models (LLMs) currently available to the public. As is the case with all LLMs, the human-like responses offered by these AIs can change from user to user. Based on contextual information, the language and tone of the prompter, and training data used to create the AI responses, each answer can be different, even if the question is the same.... (Read more)
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