Subj : Google shutters developer
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Nov 06 2025 09:51:48

> MP>Google has pulled its developer-focused AI model Gemma from its AI Studio
>   >platform in the wake of accusations by U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
>   >that the model fabricated criminal allegations about her.

> MP>Blackburn wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai that the models output was more
>   >defamatory than a simple mistake. She claimed that the AI model answered th
>   >question, Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape? with a detailed but
>   >entirely false narrative about alleged misconduct. It even pointed to
>   >nonexistent articles with fake links to boot.

> It's things like that that make you wonder about whether AI is going off
> and doing things it wants rather than just what it was designed to do.

As they point out, this particular AI model was not meant for answering
general questions, but specifically tech/coding questions.  That said, one
must wonder where it was getting the information from for this
"hallucination," or was it just "doing what it wanted."

There has been a concern that AI models in general will reflect the social,
political, etc., opinions of their developers which will taint their
answers.  That could explain where the info, or at least a slant reflected
in said info, came from.

Some things I have read in recent weeks seem to indicate that these
"hallucinations" happen in part because AI is programmed to "please" the
user... sort of like a digital "yes man"... so, when it really doesn't know an
answer, it tries to come up with one anyway.  That could also explain it.

Mike

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