Google's Gemini AI Stalls on Political Questions, Lags Behind Rivals

Google's Gemini AI Stalls on Political Questions, Lags Behind Rivals

While several of Google’s rivals, including OpenAI, have tweaked their AI chatbots to discuss politically sensitive subjects in recent months, Google appears to be embracing a more conservative approach. Image Credits:Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg / Getty Images    When asked to answer certain political questions, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini, often says it “can’t help with responses on elections and political figures right now,” TechCrunch’s testing found. Other chatbots, including Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Meta AI, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT consistently answered the same questions, according to TechCrunch’s tests. Google announced in March 2024 that Gemini wouldn’t answer election-related queries leading up to several elections taking place in the U.S., India, and other countries. Many AI companies adopted similar temporary restrictions, fearing backlash in the event that their chatbots got something wrong. Now, though, Google is starting to look like the odd one out. Last year’s major e…