IT minister to Google India: Government has said this before, I repeat for 'attention'

Soon after Google responded to the controversy over its Gemini AI chatbot’s ‘biased’ response to a question on PM Narendra Modi, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar warned the Indian arm of the search giant that India’s Digital Nagriks must not to be experimented on with "unreliable" platforms/ algorithms/ models.

“Govt has said this bfr [before] - I repeat for attn of @GoogleIndia,” the IT minister said in a post, sharing a news report by The Times of India.

“Our Digital Nagriks are NOT to be experimented on with ‘unreliable’ platforms/algos/model; Safety & Trust is [the] platform's legal obligation; and ‘Sorry Unreliable’ does not exempt from law,” he said in the post.


What Google said
In a response to Gemini’s ‘biased’ response, Google said that it has worked quickly to address the issue. It added that the company’s chatbot "may not always be reliable" in responding to certain prompts related to current events and political topics.

“We've worked quickly to address this issue. This is something that we're constantly working on improving," a Google spokesperson said in an email statement.

Previously, the minister had tagged Google and the Ministry of Electronics and IT saying that the responses by Gemini “are direct violations of Rule 3(1)(b) of Intermediary Rules (IT rules) of the IT act and violations of several provisions of the Criminal code.”

In a post, a user alleged bias in Google Gemini's response to the question on PM Modi. He also claimed that the AI chatbot did not provide a clear answer when a similar question was asked for former US president Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Google image generation tool labelled 'woke'Not only the text generation, the images created by Gemini also became an issue for Google. The company was criticised after its AI chatbot generated inaccurate historical images of the US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era German soldiers, which looked.

Google paused the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people and said that it will re-release a further-tuned model.