{"id":258833,"date":"2025-11-03T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258833\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:08:11","slug":"google-pulls-ai-model-after-senator-says-it-fabricated-assault-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258833\/","title":{"rendered":"Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google says<\/a> it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, \u201cfabricated serious criminal allegations\u201d about her.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Google\u2019s official news account said the company had \u201cseen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio and ask it factual questions.\u201d AI Studio is a platform for developers and not a conventional way for regular consumers to access Google\u2019s AI models. Gemma is specifically billed as a family of AI models<\/a> for developers to use, with variants for medical use<\/a>, coding<\/a>, and evaluating text and image content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gemma was never meant to be used as a consumer tool, or to be used to answer factual questions, Google said. \u201cTo prevent this confusion, access to Gemma is no longer available on AI Studio. It is still available to developers through the API.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google did not specify which reports prompted Gemma\u2019s removal, though on Thursday Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote<\/a> to CEO Sundar Pichai accusing the company of defamation and anti-conservative bias. Blackburn, who also raised the issue during a recent Senate commerce hearing about anti-diversity activist Robby Starbuck\u2019s own AI defamation suit against Google<\/a>, claimed Gemma responded falsely when asked \u201cHas Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gemma apparently replied that Blackburn \u201cwas accused of having a sexual relationship with a state trooper\u201d during her 1987 campaign for state senate, who alleged \u201cshe pressured him to obtain prescription drugs for her and that the relationship involved non-consensual acts.\u201d It also provided a list of fake news articles to support the story, Blackburn said.<\/p>\n

None of this is true, not even the campaign year which was actually 1998. The links lead to error pages and unrelated news articles. There has never been such an accusation, there is no such individual, and there are no such news stories. This is not a harmless \u201challucination.\u201d It is an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.<\/p>\n

The narrative has a familiar feel. Even though we\u2019re now several years into the generative AI boom, AI models still have a complex relationship with the truth. False or misleading answers from AI chatbots masquerading as facts still plague the industry and despite improvements there is no clear solution to the accuracy problem in sight. Google said it remains \u201ccommitted to minimizing hallucinations and continually improving all our models.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her letter, Blackburn said her response remains the same: \u201cShut it down until you can control it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,192,44,2100,714,64,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-258833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-google","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-policy","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-tech","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}