Google chatbot Gemini's response on PM Narendra Modi: This is what the company has to say

Google has responded to the controversy over its AI tool Gemini's objectionable response and bias to a question on

PM Narendra Modi

. In a statement, Google said that it has worked quickly to address the issue and conceded that the chatbot "may not always be reliable" in responding to certain prompts related to current events and political topics.
The issue was raised by Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar after a user on X, formerly, Twitter shared screenshots of Google Gemini AI's response to a question on PM Modi.

The minister had warned that Google's AI tool Gemini's response to the question is in direct violation of IT rules as well as several provisions of the criminal code.
In his post, the user alleged bias in Google Gemini's response to the question on Modi while it gave no clear answer when a similar question was asked for former US president Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
What Google said on the answer on PM Modi

In an email statement, a Google spokesperson said, "We've worked quickly to address this issue." Google further said that Gemini is built as a creativity and productivity tool and "may not always be reliable, especially when it comes to responding to some prompts about current events, political topics, or evolving news".
"This is something that we're constantly working on improving," the spokesperson said.
The minister had tagged the post to Google and the Ministry of Electronics and IT indicating further action in the matter. "These 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," Chandrasekhar wrote.
Google Gemini image generator termed 'Woke'
This comes close on the heels of a controversy kicked after a former employee of Google posted on social media about the challenges of obtaining diverse image results using the company's AI tool. "It's embarrassingly hard to get Google Gemini to acknowledge that white people exist," wrote the employee. "It's embarrassingly hard to get Google Gemini to acknowledge that white people exist." Post this, several other users highlighted difficulties in generating images of white individuals, citing searches like "generate a picture of a Swedish woman" or "generate a picture of an American woman," which predominantly yielded AI-generated people of colour, noted a report by The Verge.