Washington CNN — The Federal Election Commission has tossed out claims by the Republican National Committee that Google’s spam filters in Gmail are illegally biased against conservatives, according to an agency letter obtained by CNN. The decision resolves a joint FEC complaint filed last year spearheaded by the RNC that alleged Gmail’s automated filters had sent Republican fundraising emails to spam at a… Source link
Read More »Google’s AI chatbot—sentient and similar to ‘a kid that happened to know physics’—is also racist and biased, fired engineer contends
A former Google engineer fired by the company after going public with concerns that its artificial intelligence chatbot is sentient isn’t concerned about convincing the public. He does, however, want others to know that the chatbot holds discriminatory views against those of some races and religions, he recently told Business Insider. “The kinds of problems these AI pose, the people building them are blind to them,” Blake Lemoine said in an interview published Sunday, blaming… Source link
Read More »Watchdog group says Google gave California voters biased search results
Democratic strategist Christy Setzer and ‘ Outloud with Gianno Caldwell’ host Gianno Caldwell discuss voting in the presidential election. The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is calling for California’s Senate Elections Committee to investigate why Google algorithms gave voters looking for answers from the state’s official election guide a biased take on ballot measures, including Proposition 24. In searches of the Golden State’s 12 ballot proposals, officials found that seven measures had… Source link
Read More »India tells US that digital tax on Google, Amazon isn’t biased
India’s decision to levy a tax on companies offering digital services in the country is not aimed at any particular country and the decision will not be reconsidered, people with knowledge of the matter said. The decision has been conveyed to the U.S. trade department, which had initiated a probe alleging the South Asian nation was targeting companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the people said asking not to be identified citing… Source link
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