The Indian government has issued a warning to Google India regarding its experimentation with ‘Digital Nagriks’ using potentially unreliable algorithms or AI models. The IT Ministry is in the process of issuing a notice to the tech giant over what it deems as “problematic and illegal” responses by Google’s Gemini AI.
Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, expressed concern on X social platform, emphasizing that the safety and trust of internet as well as digital platforms are legal obligations. He stated, “Our ‘Digital Nagriks’ are not to be experimented on with ‘unreliable’ platforms/algorithms/models.”
Chandrasekhar highlighted that compliance with safety and trust regulations is mandatory for platforms, stressing that the excuse of being “Sorry Unreliable” does not exempt them from the law.
This happened after Google talked about dealing with responses from its AI tool Gemini about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A Google spokesperson said that Gemini is made for being creative and productive, but it might not always give the right answers, especially about current events, politics or changing news.
The company’s generative AI platform, Gemini, responded in an “objectionable” manner to PM Modi, prompting Chandrasekhar to cite direct violations of IT rules and several provisions of the Criminal Code.
Google listened to users who were concerned about Gemini AI creating images of people, so they decided to temporarily stop this feature. They assured users that they are addressing the issues and making improvements. They explained that they are already working on fixing recent problems with Gemini’s image generation. While they work on this, they will pause the generation of people’s images and plan to release a better version in the near future.
