{"id":184974,"date":"2024-03-12T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/google-wont-let-you-use-its-gemini-ai-to-answer-questions-about-an-upcoming-election-in-your-country"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:24:03","slug":"google-wont-let-you-use-its-gemini-ai-to-answer-questions-about-an-upcoming-election-in-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/google-wont-let-you-use-its-gemini-ai-to-answer-questions-about-an-upcoming-election-in-your-country","title":{"rendered":"Google won\u2019t let you use its Gemini AI to answer questions about an upcoming election in your country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-wont-let-you-use-its-gemini-ai-to-answer-questions-about-an-upcoming-election-in-your-country2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The advisory followed a mini-scandal over Gemini and the Indian government last month. The AI tool, responding to a query about whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a fascist, responded that Modi had been accused of implementing policies that some had characterized as fascist. India\u2019s deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rajeev_GoI\/status\/1725034575607501076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called it \u201cdirect violations\u201d<\/a> of the IT Rules, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Google also <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/02\/22\/google-gemini-image-pause-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended Gemini\u2019s ability to generate people\u2019s images<\/a> after it showed historical inaccuracies. The company then said it would soon re-release an improved version to address the issues.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether Google will unblock Gemini for answering election-related queries after the elections end later this year. We have contacted Google about this and will update this story when the company responds. We are also awaiting a full list of countries where the update is live now, and we will update the post as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advisory followed a mini-scandal over Gemini and the Indian government last month. The AI tool, responding to a query about whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a fascist, responded that Modi had been accused of implementing policies that some had characterized as fascist. India\u2019s deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar called it \u201cdirect violations\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}