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Google is now in full damage-control mode following last week's embarrassing revelations about the Woke bias baked deep into the company's Gemini large language model — aka, artificial intelligence. ... Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote to employees in an internal memo, "I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias — to be clear, that's completely unacceptable and we got it wrong." Pichai's memo doesn't address the root issue. The problem isn't that users were offended. The problem isn't that Gemini has "shown bias," although that phrase is a tell. The problem is that Gemini...

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said Monday that the internet giant steers clear of 'political bias,' arguing that this is a core principle of its business to maintain trust of users. Pichai also said privacy and security are essential parts of Google's mission, and that the company is committed to working with the US government 'to keep our country safe and secure.' The prepared remarks released Monday, a day ahead of Pichai's appearance at the House Judiciary Committee, come with Google under fire on several fronts, on issues around political bias, data security and its domination of internet search. Pichai...