Ohio senator demands Google ‘breakup’ amid Gemini debacle: ‘One of the most dangerous companies in the world’
Google reportedly fixing its AI tool accused of racial bias, historical inaccuracies
Lawmakers have started reacting to Google’s admitted racial and historical bias, and one Republican senator wants to see the “breakup” of one of the most well-known and profitable tech companies.
“This is one of the most dangerous companies in the world. It actively solicits and forces left-wing bias down the throats of the American nation,” Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo in a “Sunday Morning Futures” exclusive interview.
The Alphabet-owned tech giant is scrambling to right the ship after pulling the plug on Gemini’s image generation features, with CEO Sundar Pichai telling employees last Tuesday the company is working “around the clock” to fix the tool’s bias, calling the images generated by the model “completely unacceptable.”
Social media users had flagged Gemini was creating inaccurate historical images that sometimes replaced White people with images of Black, Native American and Asian people.
Fox News Digital previously tested Gemini multiple times to see what kind of responses it would offer: when the AI was asked to show a picture of a White person, Gemini said it could not fulfill the request because it “reinforces harmful stereotypes and generalizations about people based on their race.”
Sen. Vance expanded on how the alleged bias can have ripple effects on other information sectors, including politics.
“Think about the effect this has on the presidential election when unbiased, non-committed voters are searching things about Donald Trump, and also about Joe Biden, right before they cast their ballots,” the senator said.
“We cannot allow a company that is in bed with some of the worst people in the world to control the flow of information and to bias it in a left-wing direction,” he continued. “We [have] got to break this company up and bring back some common sense standards.”
Addressing the likelihood that legislative action may be taken against Google, the senator claimed there are “growing calls” across the political spectrum for a shakedown on the tech giant, noting it’s gotten “too big, too powerful.”
“My friends on the left, Maria, say they feel like our democracy is under threat. The biggest way our democracy is under threat is you have these massive, international companies that are sort of controlling what we think, what we read, what information we consume,” Vance said.
American Conservative Values ETF President Tom Carter discusses how Montana warned Google that its ‘biased’ A.I. Gemini could have broken state law on ‘The Evening Edit.’
“That’s a big problem. But I actually do think that there’s going to be growing momentum to rein Google in,” he added. “We saw this with the release of Gemini. This is a radically left-wing company that is trying to control how we consume information. If we let that happen, we are going to get exactly what we deserve.”
On Saturday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote a letter to Google parent company Alphabet, demanding that the company explain whether the Biden administration influenced Gemini’s A.I. error
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Google, another product of Stanford University and Menlo Park, was incorporated in the fall of ninety-eight shortly after stories about the Black Goo and the true nature of the Falkland Islands War began to surface. In just one more coincidence of circumstances all Google services except for Chinese Google Maps are blocked from access within mainland China by what has been dubbed The Great Firewall of China, a combination of legislative actions and technologies designed to keep Google out of the People’s Republic of China.
Google, the very epitome of a monopoly as envisioned by America’s antitrust laws, has grown with the internet and become a corporate giant the likes of which the world has never before had to contend with.
In testimony given in June to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution; Dr. Robert Epstein, Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology called Google “a serious threat to democracy and human autonomy” given its “power to suppress content – the censorship problem, if you will – as well as on the massive surveillance the company conducts, and also on the company’s unprecedented ability to manipulate the thoughts and behavior of more than 2.5 billion people worldwide.” (56)
Google through a company they created, ironically called “The Trust Project,” and finance, with help from certain Silicon Valley tech billionaires, Israeli operatives, Jesuit think tanks and shot callers for America’s war machine, routinely use “HTML-embedded codes in news articles to promote their content at the expense of independent alternatives.”(57) They have been doing this at least since early 2017 when The Trust Project’s director; Sally Lehrman boasted of sending “machine-readable signals to Facebook, Google, Bing, Twitter and other technology platforms…” (58)
Google has been all about control from their very inception. They were not even incorporated for three years when they applied for a patent to “manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set…” (59)
Gordon Duff, one of the few that know how the news really gets made, accuses Google of what he calls “Atmospherics.” Google, as entrenched as it is in cybernetics, has an almost unlimited capability to collect data which they take full advantage of.
Atmospherics “is the pseudo-science of engineering all that data through fusion centers and creating “output.”
You see, the NSA, America’s “listening ear” that taps every phone, hears and sees all but processes or “fuses” as it were, almost nothing. Google “fuses” everything, every email but more, with the help of their dark little friends, all VOIP phone calls, and by that we mean everything, gets listened to as well, far more than the NSA gets.”(60)
In June of 2017 Google was fined a record 2.42 billion Euros “by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results.” (61) The record was soon broken when in July of 2018 the European Union fined Google another five billion “after it found Google forced Smartphone makers using Android to install the company’s search and browser apps. (62)
At the beginning of this year France, true to form, kicked the reeling giant in the shin with a fifty million Euro fine and in March the European Commission struck the third mighty blow. Google was ordered to pay another one and a half billion Euros “for abusing its dominant position in online search advertising.” (63)
Clearly the European Union has declared war on Google but in America, under the Citizens United Decision and its even more monstrous offspring McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Google remains the gold standard for corporations seeking to seize control of the government. Those court decisions relegated America’s politicians, always corrupt but not legally, to mere assets for the wealthy and currently in America no one has more assets than Google…
By the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century it was clear that the internet, with its ability to deliver complex information in real time, had become the most vital component of western civilization. Information is the most valuable commodity there is. It always was. As the old Jewish proverb goes “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Corporations by the very definition of the word exist only to accumulate wealth. In order to maximize that accumulation, the existence is tailored to utilize the given infrastructure of its environment with the minimum amount of maintenance to the infrastructure. That is how a corporation works, plain and simple; it is by its very nature a parasite. Allowing a corporation to commandeer the information highway is not just a bad idea. It is irresponsible.
By the end of the last decade any even remotely efficient authority had only two options to deal with Google; one was to nationalize it and the other was to initiate a no holds barred anti-trust suit against it, as was done with Bell Telephone in 1974, which finally resulted in the Bell System Divestiture in 1984.
Instead with Operation PRISM, the NSA made it a partner. In 2015 it was reconfigured under the banner of its brand-new parent company; Alphabet Inc. a thinly veiled allusion to its new partnership with the NSA, CIA, FBI and ilk… Google has even joined NASA in the entertainment industry with their D-wave computers. Apparently instead of the government nationalizing Google, Google has googlized the government. All that’s left to be done is to move the “Googleplex” to Washington DC.
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Corporate media is all the same too and needs to be broken up.
Facebook/meta/Instagram. Same thing.
But yeah. Google needs to go.