Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.

The short version

• If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden’s win that November.
• If you ask Google’s AI Mode the same question, you might get an evasive answer that simply tells you to consult with outside sources.
• Asking about 2012 election resulted in a link to The American Presidency Project’s 2012 Data Center rather than a direct answer.

What happened

But AI Mode seemed perfectly willing to give me a detailed and correct responses for the winner of every other presidential election going back to 2000. Other Ars staffers found that AI Mode would similarly provide direct answers to some presidential result questions but not others.

Why it matters

Separate from Google’s AI Mode, the company’s own Gemini model seems perfectly capable of telling me who won recent presidential elections.

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