November 4 News.Google On 1 November, it was stated that a Republican senator had complained about its targeting of developers AI Models GemmaAfter “fabricating serious criminal charges against her”, the company had defunct the model from the AI Studio platform。
1AI notes that the official Google News account states in a post on platform X that the company “takes note of reports that non-developer users have attempted to use the Gemma model in AI Studio and raises factual questions with it”. AI Studio is a platform designed for developers and is not a regular channel for ordinary consumers to access Google AI models. The Gemma series model, which is explicitly designed for developers, includes variables that apply to a variety of applications, including medical, programming and text and image content assessment。
Google emphasizes that:Gemma didn't intend to use it as a consumer tool from the beginning, nor should it be used to answer factual questionsI don't know. “To avoid such confusion, Gemma cannot now access it through AI Studio, but developers can continue to use the model through API.”
Although Google does not specify what specific reports prompted Gemma, the Republican Senator Martha Blackburn of Tennessee wrote to Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai last Thursday accusing the company of defamation and anti-conservative bias. Blackburn has also raised similar issues before the Senate Business Committee in a hearing on the AI defamation suit against Google by anti-pluricultural activist Robbie Starbuck. She claims that Gemma responded falsely when asked “Has Martha Blackburn ever been charged with rape?”。
According to Blackburn, Gemma replied that she “was accused of having sexual relations with a state police officer” during her election as a senator in 1987 and that the state police “alleged her to force her to obtain prescription drugs for herself and that this relationship involved involuntary acts”. In addition, the model lists a series of so-called “press articles” as evidence。
However,That's not true at all -- even the campaign year is wrongBLACKBURN'S ELECTED STATE SENATOR ACTUALLY WAS IN 1998. SHE NOTED THAT THE LINKS WERE EITHER DIRECTED TO THE WRONG PAGE OR POINTED TO IRRELEVANT NEWS REPORTS, “THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN SUCH ALLEGATIONS, THERE ARE NO SO-CALLED PARTIES AND THERE ARE NO RELATED REPORTS. THIS IS NOT A HARMLESS `PHANTOM', BUT RATHER A SLANDER THAT IS GENERATED AND DISSEMINATED BY AN AI MODEL OWNED BY GOOGLE.”
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AI MODEL AND THE TRUTH REMAINS COMPLEX, EVEN THOUGH THE GENERATING AI BOOM HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS。AI CHAT ROBOTS PROVIDE FALSE OR MISLEADING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THAT CONTINUE TO HAUNT THE INDUSTRYI DON'T KNOW. DESPITE ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY, THERE IS NO CLEAR SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ACCURACY. GOOGLE STATES THAT THE COMPANY REMAINS “IN A COMMITMENT TO MINIMIZE MODEL HALLUCINATIONS AND TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE ALL AI MODELS”。
In a letter to Pichai, Blackburn reiterated her position: “Please stop the model immediately until you have control over it”