Google said it would enforce the restrictions “out of an abundance of caution” ahead of the 2024 election.
ADVERTISEMENTGoogle has begun imposing restrictions on election queries posed to its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model.
The tech giant said in a blog post on Tuesday that it had started making changes as part of its support for India’s 2024 general elections which are expected to take place in the coming months.
“Out of an abundance of caution on such an important topic, we have begun to place restrictions on the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses,” The Google India team said.
“We take our responsibility to provide high-quality information for these types of queries seriously and are continually working to improve our protections.”
The company previously said in December that it planned to restrict certain election-related queries asked of its AI models and its generative AI feature in search in a blog post about the US elections.
Fears around AI in the 2024 elections
In February, the tech giant announcement it would also limit electoral queries for Gemini in the European Union.
“As we shared last December, in anticipation of the many elections taking place around the world in 2024 and out of an abundance of caution, we are limiting the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses,” a spokesperson said. Google’s word. in a statement provided to Euronews Next.
Google also said it would “elevate authoritative information” in election-related Google and YouTube searches to help people “discover crucial information about voting.”
In December, the tech giant also outlined its efforts to help identify AI-generated content, such as ads and content tags.
Dozens of countries will hold elections in 2024 and many fear that AI-generated content will play a role in disinformation as voters head to the polls.
Last month, Google paused Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after some model responses were criticized for being biased. Some of the model’s textual responses to queries have also been criticized as biased.
Other technology giants like Meta announced measures to create centers to combat disinformation ahead of the European Parliament elections next June.
