Google AI Gemini parrots China’s propaganda

FILE - Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks about Gemini at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, May 14, 2024.

VOA’s Mandarin Service recently took Google’s artificial intelligence assistant Gemini for a test drive by asking it dozens of questions in Mandarin, but when it was asked about topics including China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang or street protests against the country’s controversial COVID policies, the chatbot went silent.