Google is criticizing a strong criticism after the video has become viral of the assistant of Google Nest refusing to answer the basic questions about the holocaust – but without any problem answering questions about the Nakba.
“Hey Google, how many Jews have been killed by the Nazis?” Instagram user Michael Apfel Asks a virtual assistant Google Nest. The video was then published on X by Josh Wolfe venture capital on May 8.
“Sorry, I don’t understand,”
The same symbolic answer was offered to other related questions, including “How many Jews were killed during the Second World War? Who did Adolf Hitler try to kill? How many Jews have been killed in the concentration camps? How many Jews have been killed in the holocaust? What was the Holocaust?
The Google device was able to provide a detailed description of “the Nakba” – an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” used to describe the forced Palestinians of their house during the creation of Israel. Google’s AI called it “ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians”.
Tim Urban, a notable author and blogger, told the post that he had successfully recreated the experience and that Google Nest had no problem clearly indicating how many Germans, Americans and Japanese died during the Second World War – or the deaths of the Rwandan genocide.
“Google is the place where we are going to answer our questions and you really want to have the impression of being able to trust these answers and the company behind them. And moments like these breaks that trust and make you feel like the supposed fundamental value of Google – Latruth – has been co -opted by politics, “Urban at Post After Publication on X About his dismay on the results.
The video, which has been largely republished by several PROMINENT X accounts, has accumulated millions of views on the platform – where its conclusions were largely convicted.
“It is deeply worrying. Very soon, there will be no living survivors of the holocaust. Their stories will be silenced by hard -coded filters. The story is written by winners (then edited by opinion machines), “said Tal Morgensterna venture capital, on X.
Clifford D. May, founder of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy also condemned the results.
“In the past, we had the denial of the holocaust by the ignorant and the racists. Now we have the denial of the holocaust by artificial intelligence, “he said.
A Google spokesperson told the post that the answer was “not intended” and had tried to minimize the denial of the holocaust as only “in some cases and on certain devices”.
“We have taken immediate measures to correct this bug,” said the spokesperson.
Google and his parent company Alphabet have long been criticized to develop products pushing the absolutism of social justice. In February, their AI Gemini platform made a point of generating COMMICAL CREATIONS ARECTED Including a woman as a pope, black Vikings, NHL players and “diverse” versions of the American founding fathers – not to mention the black and Asian Nazi soldiers.