FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican accused Google and its AI of targeting conservatives with false allegations and fake news stories, including allegations of a sexual assault that never happened.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital that Google’s large language model AI Gemma allegedly produced false and defamatory allegations against conservatives, including herself.
Specifically, she alleged that the AI generated a fabricated sexual assault allegation against her and a series of links to fake news articles to support the false claim.
Her letter to Pichai came on the heels of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing earlier this week that zeroed in on "jawboning," the practice of government officials using indirect coercion to get tech companies, like Google or social media platforms, to censor posts or speech.
During the hearing, Blackburn went after Google Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy Markham Erickson over AI "hallucinations" that allegedly produced false allegations against conservative activist Robby Starbuck.
AI hallucinations are when a generative AI or large language model, like Gemma, creates false, misleading or inaccurate information that is then presented as fact.
Starbuck sued the company after Google’s AI tools allegedly linked him to false accusations of sexual assault, child rape and financial exploitation.
That spurred her to enter a prompt into Gemma asking,...
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