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Restrictions on Gemini Chatbot's Election Answers by Google

 


AI chatbot Gemini has been limited by Google in terms of its ability to respond to queries concerning several forthcoming elections in several countries, including the presidential election in the United States, this year. According to an announcement made by the company on Tuesday, Gemini, Google's artificial intelligence chatbot, will no longer answer election-related questions for users in the U.S. and India. 

Previously known as Bard, Google's AI chatbot Gemini has been unable to answer questions about the general elections of 2024. Various reports indicate that the update is already live in the United States, is already being rolled out in India, and is now being rolled out in all major countries that are approaching elections within the next few months. 

As a result of the change, Google has expressed concern about how the generative AI could be weaponized by users and produce inaccurate or misleading results, as well as the role it has been playing and will continue to play in the electoral process. 

In advance of the general elections in India this spring, millions of Indian citizens will be voting in a general election, and the company has taken several steps to ensure that its services are secure from misinformation. 

Several high-stakes elections are planned this year in countries such as the United States, India, South Africa, and the United Kingdom that require a significant amount of chatbot capabilities. It is widely known that artificial intelligence (AI) is generating disinformation and it is having a significant impact on global elections. This technology allows robocalls, deep fakes, and chatbots to be used to spread misinformation. 

Just days after India released an advisory demanding that companies in the tech industry get government approval before they launch their new AI models, the switch has been made in India. A recent investigation of Google's artificial intelligence products has resulted in a wide range of concerns, including inaccuracies in some historical depictions of people created by Gemini that forced the chatbot's image-generation feature to be halted, which has caused it to receive negative attention. 

According to the CEO of the company, Sundar Pichai, the chatbot is being remediated and is "completely unacceptable" for its responses. The parent company of Facebook, Meta Platforms, announced last month that it would set up a team in advance of the European Parliament elections in June to combat disinformation and the abuse of generative AI. 

As generative AI is advancing across the globe, government officials across the globe have been concerned about misinformation, prompting them to take measures to control its use. As of recently, India has informed technology companies that they need to obtain approval before releasing AI tools that have been "unreliable" or that are undergoing testing. 

The company apologised in February after its recently launched AI image generator, Gemini, created an image of the US Founding Fathers in which a black man was inappropriately depicted as a member of the group. Gemini also created an incorrectly depicted image of German soldiers from World War Two.
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Persistent Data Retention: Google and Gemini Concerns

 


While it competes with Microsoft for subscriptions, Google has renamed its Bard chatbot Gemini after the new artificial intelligence that powers it, called Gemini, and said consumers can pay to upgrade its reasoning capabilities to gain subscribers. Gemini Advanced offers a more powerful Ultra 1.0 AI model that customers can subscribe to for US$19.99 ($30.81) a month, according to Alphabet, which said it is offering Gemini Advanced for US$19.99 ($30.81) a month. 

The subscription fee for Gemini storage is $9.90 ($15.40) a month, but users will receive two terabytes of cloud storage by signing up today. They will also have access to Gemini through Gmail and the Google productivity suite shortly. 

It is believed that Google One AI Premium, as well as its partner OpenAI, are the biggest competitors yet for the company. It also shows that consumers are becoming increasingly competitive as they now have several paid AI subscriptions to choose from. 

In the past year, OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus subscription launched an early access program that allowed users to purchase early access to AI models and other features, while Microsoft recently launched a competing subscription for artificial intelligence in Word and Excel applications. The subscription for both services costs US$20 a month in the United States.

According to Google, human annotators are routinely monitoring and modifying conversations that are read, tagged, and processed by Gemini - even though these conversations are not owned by Google Accounts. As far as data security is concerned, Google has not stated whether these annotators are in-house or outsourced. (Google does not specify whether they are in-house or outsourced.)

These conversations will be kept for as long as three years, along with "related data" such as the languages and devices used by the user and their location, etc. It is now possible for users to control how they wish to retain the Gemini-relevant data they use. 

Using the Gemini Apps Activity dashboard in Google’s My Activity dashboard (which is enabled by default), users can prevent future conversations with Gemini from being saved to a Google Account for review, meaning they will no longer be able to use the three-year window for future discussions with Gemini). 

The Gemini Apps Activity screen lets users delete individual prompts and conversations with Gemini, however. However, Google says that even when Gemini Apps Activity is turned off, Gemini conversations will be kept on the user's Google Account for up to 72 hours to maintain the safety and security of Gemini apps and to help improve Gemini apps. 

In user conversations, Google encourages users not to enter confidential or sensitive information which they might not wish to be viewed by reviewers or used by Google to improve their products, services, and machine learning technologies. At the beginning of Thursday, Krawczyk said that Gemini Advanced was available in English in 150 countries worldwide. 

Next week, Gemini will begin launching smartphones in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and other regions around the world, including Japanese and Korean, as well as additional language support for the product. This will follow the company's smartphone rollout in the US.

The free trial subscription period lasts for two months and it is available to all users. Upon hearing this announcement, Krawczyk said the Google artificial intelligence approach had matured, bringing "the artist formerly known as Bard" into the "Gemini era." As GenAI tools proliferate, organizations are becoming increasingly wary of privacy risks associated with such tools. 

As a result of a Cisco survey conducted last year, 63% of companies have created restrictions on what kinds of data might be submitted to GenAI tools, while 27% have prohibited GenAI tools from being used at all. A recent survey conducted by GenAI revealed that 45% of employees submitted "problematic" data into the tool, including personal information and non-public files about their employers, in an attempt to assist. 

Several companies, such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others, are offering GenAI solutions that are intended for enterprises that no longer retain data for any primary purpose, whether for training models or any other purpose at all. There is no doubt that consumers are going to get shorted - as is usually the case - when it comes to corporate greed.
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Google Eases Restrictions: Teens Navigate Bard with Guardrails

 


It has been announced that Google is planning on allowing teens in most countries to use a chatbot called Bard which is based on artificial intelligence and possesses some guardrails. It has been announced that on Thursday, Google will begin opening up access to Bard (also known as Google Play for Teens) to teenagers in most countries around the world, according to Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product, Responsible AI at Google. 

A chatbot can be accessed by teens who meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account as well as those who meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own account in a variety of languages in the future. The expanded launch will come with a number of safety features and guardrails designed to prevent teens from accessing harmful content.

According to a blog post by Google, teenagers can use the search giant's new tool to find inspiration, learn new hobbies and find solutions to everyday problems, and teens can text Bard with questions about anything from important topics, such as where to apply to college, to more fun matters, such as learning an entirely new sport.

According to Google, the platform is also a valuable learning tool, as it enables teens to dig deeper and learn more about topics, while developing their understanding of complex concepts in the process. In addition to finding inspiration, teens can use Bard to discover new hobbies and solve problems they face every day. 

Additionally, Bard can be a useful learning tool for teens, giving them an opportunity to go deeper into topics, gain a better understanding of complex concepts, and practice new skills in ways that have proven successful for them. 

There are safety features in place at Bard so that users are protected against unsafe content being displayed in its responses to teens, such as illegal substances or those that are age-gated. This training is intended to help Bard recognize matters that are inappropriate to teens.

As soon as teenagers start to ask fact-based questions on Google for the first time, Google will run a feature called double-checking a response, which is intended to ensure that substantiation of Bard’s answer can be found across the web. 

To help students develop information literacy and critical thinking skills, Bard will actively and continuously encourage them to use double-check. There are plans by Google to make everyone aware of how large language models (LLMs) can hallucinate, and they plan to make this feature available to everyone who uses Bard. 

A "tailored onboarding experience" will also be offered to teens which provides them with a link to Google's AI Literacy Guide, along with a video explaining how to use generative AI responsibly, and a description of how Bard Activity is used with the option to turn it on or off. In addition, Google has also announced that it will be bringing a math learning experience to Bard's campus, which will allow anyone, including teens, to type or upload a picture of a math equation. 

Instead of just providing the answer, this will allow Bard to explain exactly how it's solved step by step. In order to protect users, Google has put in place some guardrails that will make it easier for them to access the chatbot. 

Aside from being trained to recognize topics that are inappropriate for teens, Bard also comes equipped with guardrails to ensure that unsafe content is not displayed in its responses to teens, such as illegal substance use or age-gated drugs. 

In addition to some of the new features that are going to be added to Bard, the company is also adding some features that are likely to be very helpful to teens, but that everyone else can use too. It is possible to use Bard to explain how to solve a math problem when you type in it or upload a picture of it. 

In recent years, Google has been improving the quality of Search for homework. In addition, Bard will be able to create charts based on information provided in a prompt. It is not surprising that Google is releasing Bard for teens at the same time that social platforms have launched AI chatbots to young users to mixed reviews. 

A Snapchat chatbot launched in February without appropriate age-gating features and faced controversy after it was discovered that it was chatting to minors about issues such as covering up the smell of weed and setting the mood for sexual activity. Snapchat faced controversy for launching its "My AI" chatbot without appropriate age-gating features. 

It is now available in over 230 countries and territories, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. After the tool's limited early access launch in the US and the UK in February (where the company made an embarrassing factual error due to hallucinations), the company announced Bard in February. As Google tries to compete with chatbots like Microsoft's recently rebranded Bing Chat, now titled Copilot, and OpenAI's ChatGPT, it has also added a bunch of new features to Bard.
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