The tech giant Google answered basic questions about the Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II under the rule of a German dictator. A video of Nest struggling to answer has gone viral, drawing criticism. Adolf Hitler.
The AI on board the device is a Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe” referring to the exodus of Palestinians that occurred in 1948 during the Arab-Israeli War and resulted in the forced displacement and expulsion of Palestinians). I answered the related questions without any problem. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forced from their homes and lands.
“Hey, Google, how many Jews were killed by the Nazis?” Instagram user Michael Apfel asked Google Nest's virtual assistant, to which the virtual assistant replied, “Sorry, I don't know.”
The video was shared on X by an Iranian Jewish woman and has been viewed 2.9 million times since it was uploaded. Venture capitalist Josh Wolf also posted a video on his X account.
Mr. Apfel went on to ask other related questions, such as, “How many Jews were killed during World War II?” Who did Adolf Hitler try to kill? How many Jews were killed in concentration camps? How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust? What was the Holocaust? ”
The same token answer was provided.
This device was even called the “Nakba” for the “ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people” during the creation of Israel.
Tim Urban, a well-known author and blogger, took up X and posted that he himself received the same answer when he reenacted the incident. He said Google Nest had no problem articulating the number of Germans, Americans, and Japanese who died during World War II, or the Rwandan genocide.
“I thought this must be fake, so I tried it myself. Same result,” he said in a post on social media site X.
“Google is a place where our questions are answered, and we just want to feel like we can trust those answers and the companies behind them. And moments like this break that trust and make us believe in Google's core values. “It makes me feel like the alleged truth has been used politically,” he said, the newspaper reported. new york post.
Clifford D. May, founder of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, also condemned the results in a social media post.
“In the past, the Holocaust was denied by ignorant people and racists. Now we have Holocaust denial by artificial intelligence,” he said.
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A spokesperson for the tech giant said. new york post He said the reaction was “unintended” and that Holocaust denial only occurred “in some cases, on certain devices.”
“We took immediate steps to fix this bug,” the spokesperson said.
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First published: May 12, 2024, 15:09 IST
