Google has removed one of its AI models from a popular developer platform after a US senator accused it of making up criminal allegations against her.

Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee claimed that Google ’s large language model Gemma had fabricated accusations of sexual misconduct when presented with the question, “Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?”

The response produced by Gemma allegedly included fake links to non-existent news articles about an incident in 1987 involving “non-consensual acts” with a state trooper.

In a letter to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, Senator Blackburn claimed that the response was part of a “consistent pattern of bias against conservatives” and called for the AI tool to be shut down.

“The scope of this problem is far broa

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