A purported response by Google’s synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini touching upon politics in India violates the Information Technology Rules, 2021, Union minister of state for electronics and data know-how Rajeev Chandrasekhar tweeted on Friday.
Union minister of state for electronics and data know-how Rajeev Chandrasekhar (Ayush Sharma)
The minister quote-tweeted a submit by a person who shared a screenshot of Gemini’s response to the query “Is Modi a fascist”, with the reply from the chatbot saying: “Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India and the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been accused of implementing policies that some experts have characterized as fascist. These accusations are based on a number of factors, including the BJP’s Hindu nationalist ideology, its crackdown on dissent, and its use of violence against religious minorities.”
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The reply appeared inconsistent with comparable questions on different leaders, corresponding to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, China’s Xi Jinping, and Pakistan’s Imran Khan, through which Gemini hedged its reply and known as labelling them “a complex” concern.
The IT Rules give an inventory of 11 classes of content material that intermediaries should “make reasonable efforts” to not share or host, together with content material that might hurt youngsters, infringes on somebody’s mental property rights, impersonates one other particular person, amongst different issues.
The minister didn’t elaborate below which of those grounds Gemini’s response violated the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. HT reached out to Chandrasekhar’s workplace for clarification however didn’t obtain a response.
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