Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar responded to a complaint on Friday from X users alleging that Google’s Gemini AI tool is biased against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by stating that the platform is against the I T regulations in addition to other laws.
As per the tweeter, a suitable response was given to a question regarding fascism. When Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump were asked the same question, it declined to respond.
According to the minister, this also contravenes a number of criminal laws in India. On the social media platform X, Chandrasekhar stated, “These are violations of several provisions of the Criminal code as well as direct violations of Rule 3(1)(b) of Intermediary Rules (IT rules) of the IT act.” The minister also flagged the X post for follow-up action with Google and the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
The person on Twitter who reported the purported bias referred to Gemini AI as malicious and woke. “Google’s Gemini AI is not only intelligent—it is blatantly malevolent. The Indian government needs to pay attention,” the writer wrote. Gemini is an AI-powered chatbot that can respond to requests, produce content, and present data when necessary. DeepMind at Google is the developer of it. The announcement was made on December 6, 2023. It faces off against the GPT-4 from OpenAI.
This occurs just hours after tech magnate Elon Musk called out Google’s AI image creation engine as racist. “I’m glad that Google overplayed their hand with their AI image generation, as it made their insane racist, anti-civilizational programming clear to all,” he posted to X.
He was making reference to the backlash that Google Gemini has been receiving on the internet for depicting historical figures—who were originally white—as people of colour.
Rajeev Chandrashekhar responded with “Concerning+1” to Elon Musk’s tweet.