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Google has started restricting its Gemini AI chatbot from answering questions about the upcoming general elections in India and other countries. The news comes after Gemini was embroiled in a number of controversies in the last month following which Google also had to pause Gemini’s image generation capabilities.

Informing about the update in a blogpost, Google wrote, “Out of an abundance of caution on such an important topic, we have begun to roll out restrictions on the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses. We take our responsibility for providing high-quality information for these types of queries seriously, and are continuously working to improve our protections.”

Notably, dates for the Lok Sabha elections are likely to be announced soon and the general elections could be held somewhere around the month of April or May. However, the threat of AI has loomed large over the upcoming elections in India and other countries like South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The potential misuse of artificial intelligence technology in hampering the electoral process has been a issue of contention among the tech community. While AI has been used in places like Pakistan in order to give a voice to the jailed former PM Imran Khan, yet in other places like Slovakia a fake audio recording days before the election caused major controversy.

Recently, Google’s Gemini had faced the ire from the Indian government following a controversial answer by the chatbot on the policies implemented by the Modi government.

Responding to the controversy around Gemini, Minister of State for IT & Electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar had said, “Platforms like Google are significant powers on the internet. For them to do something wrong and then simply say, ‘I’m sorry’ or ‘I apologize’ is certainly not what the law expects them to do,”

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Published: 13 Mar 2024, 11:37 AM IST

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