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House Republicans are demanding documents from Google to learn whether the U.S. government influenced Google’s woke artificial intelligence program Gemini.
The House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, on Saturday urging it to turn over all communications between federal authorities and Alphabet regarding Gemini to the committee by March 17th.
“In light of emerging reporting on how Alphabet intentionally biased its AI model, Gemini, by giving Americans instructions to skew the results shared… We are writing to inform you that we consider this to be comprehensive of material related to this technology,” the letter written by the committee’s chairman, Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, reads.
Jordan stipulates that AI must promote “equity,” a left-wing ideology that advocates for Black people and other historically marginalized groups to be given priority in the spotlight. He said he was alarmed by internal reports from within the Gemini team that he followed President Biden’s guidelines. People of color and other groups who are not historically marginalized, regardless of their accomplishments.
Google’s Gemini was widely ridiculed after it was revealed that the system refused to generate images of white people, instead spitting out “diverse” depictions of Founding Fathers, the Pope, and Vikings.
“Given that Alphabet has censored First Amendment-protected speech in the past as a result of requests and demands from government agencies, the Commission finds that the First Amendment violations that occurred with respect to Alphabet’s Gemini model We are concerned about this possibility,” the letter continued.
Imges Cetin, founder of Genie AI, which focuses on data analytics, said woke AI is a serious problem in the technology field.
“It’s written not to write racist or sexist things, but when you do that, it starts to affect the truth. George Washington was not black. So manipulating reality is… It’s a really big risk,” she told the Post.
