Is Google Gemini AI Sneaky Mind Control? 1 Writer Says It Tries To ‘Nudge’ Our Thinking

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary Google has been under siege in recent weeks after several reports found the company’s new artificial intelligence system, Gemini , to lack quality and consistency.

The rushed launch of Gemini, propelled by fears of lagging behind in the AI race, has caused the company to now take a more conservative approach to its AI products.

Recently, Google suspended its image generating software indefinitely and on Tuesday, it announced that its chatbot would not generate any answers related to the many high-profile elections occurring this year around the world.

Gemini’s Beleaguered Launch: Google launched Gemini in December of last year, initially as the engine behind Bard, its AI chatbot, which is in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is offered within Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) products. Soon after, Google launched a Gemini-backed image generation platform, in the same vein as MidJourney or OpenAI’s DALL-E.

Late last month, the company faced a storm of criticism after it became publicly known the image service was generating racially inaccurate depictions of Nazi soldiers, who were portrayed as Black or Asian by default. The engine also generated historically inaccurate representations of the Pope, whom it cast as female. George Washington, as well as other founding fathers, were depicted as Black.

The debacle was so large that CEO Sundar Pichai as well as co-founder Sergey Brinadmitted the launch was rushed and irresponsible, leading to the suspension of the services “for a few weeks.”

While the image generator service remains offline, it’s the company’s text-generation services that has sparked the latest wave of criticism.

On Tuesday, Google told TechCrunch that it will be limiting its chatbot from generating answers related to this year’s upcoming elections around the globe.