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China right now is leading the way with releasing open weights models. The US lags behind, as they are all more concerned about releasing closed weights commercial models.
It’s possible a member of Blackburn’s staff or a supporter went looking for a libelous hallucination in Google’s models.
Good to see Ars with some common sense here.
FYI Gemma3 is Google’s open weights release, for local running and finetuning. It’s pretty neat (especially the QAT version), but also old and small; there’s no reason anyone would pick it over Gemini 2.5 in Google’s dev web app, except for esoteric dev testing. It’s not fast, it doesn’t know much, it’s not great with tooling (like web referencing), its literal purpose is squeezing onto desktop PCs or cheap GPUs.
…Hence this basically impacts no-one.
The worst risk is that Google may flinch and neuter future Gemma/Gemini over this, lest some other MAGA screams bloody murder over nothing.
The future is very small models trained to work in a certain domain and able to run on devices.
Huge foundational models are nice and everything, but they are simply too heavy and expensive to run.
Did it hallucinate or make an educated guess?
More corporate pandering
Blackburn published her letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday, just hours before the company announced the change to Gemma availability. She demanded Google explain how the model could fail in this way, tying the situation to ongoing hearings that accuse Google and others of creating bots that defame conservatives.
Seems pretty easy to explain. LLMs are statistical models. Republican politicians are statistically more likely to be sexual predators. If you ask it if some random Republican politician is a rapist, it’s going to give you a statistically plausible answer.
Elon constantly being forced to tune Grok shows just how much of a losing battle it is. LLM is just doing what it’s programmed to do.
I thought the government just banned any regulation against AI companies. The inconsistency doesn’t surprise me, but the brazenness sure does.
They banned all AI regulations unless it affects MAGA detrimentally
“You’re only supposed to defame Democrats, Google!”
You may be disappointed if you go looking for Google’s open Gemma AI model in AI Studio today.
Oh nooo, something i didnt even know existed and had no intention of using got removed. How horrible :o
