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A year after AI ‘code red,’ Google is red-faced amid Gemini backlash. Was it inevitable? | The AI Beat
Google has long-worried that its LLM releases could lead to user backlash, so criticism of its Gemini model was, perhaps, inevitable.
All weekend, it seemed like my social media feed was little more than screenshots and memes and links to headlines that either poked fun or took painful stabs at Google’s so-called ‘woke’ Gemini AI model. After all, Google had hesitated from the start to release its most sophisticated LLMs precisely because of the potential for what is happening right now: That is, massive backlash against the tech giant for inappropriate LLM output. Lemoine, who worked for Google’s Responsible AI organization until he was placed on paid leave, and who “became ordained as a mystic Christian priest, and served in the Army before studying the occult,” had begun testing LaMDA to see if it used discriminatory or hate speech.
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