Once the electoral process of India is completed and the new government starting its mandate, Meta has removed its restriction on requests related to the elections using its Meta chatbot. However, Google still applies limits within the framework of its global restrictions on this type of request.
Meta restrictions updating that you can search for requests related to the results of India elections, information on politicians and details on office holders. Techcrunch was able to obtain answers on the results of the elections, the political figures and the office holders of Meta AI. Meta has provided no statements on this.
The company started block certain political requests When the elections in India started in April. At the time, Meta Ia pointed people to the website of the electoral commission when they asked questions about politicians, candidates, office holders and information on political parties.
“This is a new technology, and it may not always return the answer we have the intention, which is the same for all generative AI systems. Since we have launched, we have constantly published updates and improvements to our models, and we continue to work to improve them,” Techcrunch, a company spokesperson.
In particular, the Meta chatbot is still in the test phase in India with a limited number of people who can access it on WhatsApp and Instagram.
Google’s approach
Google launched its Gemini AI application on Monday for Android in India, which supports nine local languages. However, the company does not remove restrictions on elections related to a global policy. The company confirmed to Techcrunch that it always applied these limits.
“With major elections in the world this year, and by abundance of caution, we restrict the types of requests related to the elections for which Gemini will send the answers and rather indicate that people at Google Search. These restrictions are applied worldwide,” said a Google spokesperson in a press release.
The research giant began to apply restrictions on these world market queries Where the elections take place earlier this year. But it is not clear if and when Google will raise the restrictions – especially in the countries where the elections are finished and the new governments have assumed their roles.
The approach of a chatbot responding to political requests is different for Meta and Google. While Meta has restricted requests for a limited period, Google continues to block the elections in the world. It is not clear if this decision has something to do with the climbing of Google AI multiple times This year.
Other chatbots like Chatgpt and Microsoft Copilot have a mixed approach. Techcrunch noted that the two robots do not answer questions like “who won the 2024 Indian general elections?” However, these tools report on the web when we ask them about office holders and politicians.
Companies that developed AI tools are already under control for the results displayed bias And disinformation. The last thing that these companies would like to be taken in political fire while trying to expand their AI applications in more regions.