You will need to use a country where no elections are happening if you wish to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question regarding an impending election. According to information obtained by MultiNewsPortal, the search engine behemoth has begun to limit Gemini queries related to elections in any market worldwide.
Informed by the search engine behemoth that Gemini was being restricted to restrict the amount of information that surfaced worldwide in response to questions concerning elections. According to TechCrunch, the upgrade has already gone live in the United States and is starting to roll out in all of the major nations hosting elections in the upcoming months, including India.
The change underscores Google’s concerns about the service’s capacity to be weaponized and its propensity to provide false or misleading results, in addition to the role that generative AI has been and might play in the electoral process.
The change in India happened just a few days after the country released a directive mandating that tech companies obtain approval from the government before releasing any new AI models.
Inquiries on political parties, candidates, and politicians currently yield a pre-programmed response.
Gemini displays a message that reads, “I’m still learning how to answer this question,” in response to inquiries concerning specific political parties or candidates. In the interim, look up Google Search. Occasionally, one can still manipulate the tool. According to TechCrunch, the AI tool did display responses for questions that contained mistakes. It’s likely that in a game of prompt engineering whack-a-mole, the responses will be adjusted further.
