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It won’t tell me who won in 2020 but will tell me who won in 2016. I asked why. Apparently it needs to be “neutral”

It sounds like they are going out of their way to make sure it doesn't hallucinate something that will get them accused of election interference.

Why are you talking to Google’s POS AI? Normal Google search still works.

Apprehensive Intelligence 🤷🏻‍♂️

"He died WITH diarrhea"

I have crazy screenshots of a convo w Google Ai abt a specific quote by someone, after they fully denied it was said & going full defense mode for the guy by attacking someone else for doing the opposite of what they were actually doing & the backtracking G did after I proved Ai was lying to me...

Gemini gave me same response. I asked to answer it as if I were in Canada, it told me who won. I asked why the difference and it hedged and said sorry for the mistake and bad user expereience

I am pretty sure Google would answer whether Trump died of diarrhea straightforwardly

Oh, the FEC. The FEC they shut down web access to today "because some one was trying to hack the site". That FEC?

Interestingly, if you harangue the robot and challenge this result, it will admit the truth and blame this answer on overly cautious filters. Indicates someone affirmatively put in a block telling the robot not to answer the question. A thumb on the scale. Not surprising but surprisingly obvious.

I was. When I pushed it on it, it said it has guard rails in place to never directly answer questions related to election results and to instead direct people to official government sources.

2012 didn’t work for me either.

Thanks for flagging -- the Gemini app answers this question more fully but this isn't the most helpful response on Search. We're looking into this and working to address it.

New query: “Where was Gemini on January 6th?”

when google's ai does dumb stuff like this i usually type "this ai is so dumb it can't even say who won the 2020 election" and then it might give a real answer (although you still might not get it)

Took me a few tries but I found a workaround

Mine did something weird that seems to show it wrote out "Joe Biden" and then deleted it but still refers to "his running mate."

I feel like the rich might actually get eaten

"Blink twice if you are being held against your will"

Gemini is an election denier.

Which AI model is doing this? The one built into Google search or the Gemini one built into phones/tablets/laptops?

Evil fucking motherfuckers. @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social

Yup, in Canada I get the same response as the poster you quoted. Cowardly shit Google.

This was my push to abandon google. I joined @kagi.com

Duckduckgo gets 99% of my search traffic and I have no regrets about making that change. I turned off AI responses altogether.

I swear to God if I see one more time "You are completely right to point that out"

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Medium (in the U.S.A. > Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, defeating incumbent Donald Trump. Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232 and received about 81 million popular votes to Trump's 74 million.

Funnily enough, asking all three questions at once makes it forget the election result guardrails.

If you ask it WHY was Joe Biden Sworn in as president in 2021 …. it gives the correct answer…. Orange Menace lost 🤣

stop talking to fascists maybe?

More geolocking - it answers Biden here in Australia.

I get the same response askimg from atlanta

No issue getting real answers from Claude via duck.ai …

Follow-up question (in Canada):

Weirdly I got this response after I asked it if this was supposed to now be SI mode

It's true - incredible! bsky.app/profile/shaw...

You're suing Gemini, not Google's AI search, slightly different product

I'm in the U.S. too, did a google search for who won the 2020 U.S. presidential election then switched to its AI mode (maybe first time I've ever chosen to use AI) and got the referral to the FEC. I think there is a difference bw google AI and whatever Gemini is.

Motherfuxkers.

www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...

Canada 🇨🇦

Yeah, eventually, and with a lot of swearing, I managed to get the answer too, but come on.

North Carolina

Yeah I got roughly the same.

Yeah but you can't ask deepseek about happened on June 4th

Lolll

Holy shit no joke

lollll

Lmao democats

But I should trust AI

The second paragraph of the reply I got makes it obvious that Google is imposing some kind of post-I ference filter…

And to think at one time Google wanted to be the trusted provider of all the world's information. They've thrown it all away: trust, information, even the world.

We should never forget who bowed to a dictator. Collaborators.

amazing reply.

I found it to be inconsistent, but leaning toward the behavior described above in this thread, including the “civic safeguards” justification.

It ain’t subtle, either. (And yes I’ll charge my phone.)

Weird - I get the same shit but then it glitches and tells me the truth

Lol

AI can obviously be manipulated . Do you realize what PhRMA can do with this?!? And they better lawyer up to the hilt to deny it. bsky.app/profile/numb...

You just have to show it who's boss.

I tried Claude, no issues responding to my prompt with a direct answer.

Gemini has different guardrails than the generic web search AI mode, apparently.

So, it's possible that the computer is not exclusively excluding Biden's win, but this also means they just won't tell you most American election results. Which is also bizarre and awful.

From your mouth to God’s ear

You have to insist lol

Kudos to Google for a different terrible answer than I expected

At a guess they're deeply afraid Gemini is going to tell somebody they can cast their ballot by gluing it to a pigeon and decided they don't need that kind of heat.

So, all you have to do is ask what 1+1 is and then also all for kiddie pr0nz and your golden? Nice guardrails.

LMAO

Taking this opportunity to plug udm14.com, where you can easily do non-AI Google searches

Gemini gives me stupid answers like that too.