Google DeepMind just announced a new partnership with startups to give access to its artificial intelligence, which has a track record of crushing free speech and displaying extreme bias.
In a May 12 press release, Google’s Jonathan Silber declared the launch of the AI Futures Fund to give startups special resources, equity funding, technical expertise, and early access to AI models to help them grow. But since AI Gemini, with its track record of censorship, is at the heart of the initiative, free speech advocates might well be concerned. Strangely, the expansion comes just after a federal judge ruled that Google is a “monopolist” in a major antitrust suit.
Silber particularly bragged about early access opportunities to “some of our most advanced AI models like Gemini, Imagen for image generation and Veo for video generation.” But MRC has repeatedly exposed the bias and suppression of information programmed into Gemini, the chatbot that became infamous for refusing to generate images of white people while creating images of women popes and black Vikings.
Google claimed in 2023 that Gemini evaluates content for “toxicity,” to “limit harm,” though it seems it limits free speech.
In March 2024, MRC caught Gemini lying so egregiously about Presidents Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s economic track records that researchers were able to press the AI to admit error. Just ahead of July 4, 2024, MRC researchers found Gemini returned extremely anti-American answers to a series of questions, with the chatbot bashing the U.S. national anthem, and claiming that there is not a clear answer on whether to celebrate Independence Day or whether the Declaration of Independence is more important than the Communist Manifesto.
Again in October, MRC exposed Gemini for defending Hezbollah and obscuring its terrorist status, even while the terrorist group was attacking Israel. Then in April, Gemini tried to defend the reliability of state-funded NPR and PBS while using NPR and PBS as sources for its arguments.
Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Google be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
