"In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Senator Marsha Blackburn - a Republican from Tennessee - said that when Gemma was asked, "Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?" it responded by falsely claiming that during a 1987 state senate campaign, a state trooper alleged that Blackburn "pressured him to obtain prescription drugs for her and that the relationship involved non-consensual acts.""
""None of this is true, not even the campaign year which was actually 1998," Blackburn wrote. While there are links to news articles that supposedly support these claims, she said, "The links lead to error pages and unrelated news articles. There has never been such an accusation, there is no such individual, and there are no such news stories.""
"The letter also said that during a recent Senate Commerce hearing, Blackburn brought up conservative activist Robby Starbuck's lawsuit against Google, in which Starbuck claims Google's AI models (including Gemma) generated defamatory claims about him being a "child rapist" and "serial sexual abuser." As recounted in Blackburn's letter, Google's Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy Markham Erickson responded that hallucinations are a known issue and Google is "working hard to mitigate them.""
Gemma, a Google AI model, produced a fabricated claim that during a 1987 state senate campaign a state trooper accused Marsha Blackburn of pressuring him for prescription drugs and non-consensual acts. Blackburn stated the claim is false, the campaign year is wrong, the purported trooper and news stories do not exist, and links provided led to errors or unrelated pages. Blackburn cited a related lawsuit by Robby Starbuck alleging other Google AI models generated defamatory sexual-abuse claims. Google acknowledged hallucinations as a known issue and said it is working to mitigate them, while Blackburn called the output an act of defamation.
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