Google said it has removed Gemma from the roster of AI models available on AI Studio, days after a US senator alleged that the small language model (SLM) had been used to fabricate accusations of sexual misconduct against her.

“We’ve now seen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio and ask it factual questions. We never intended this to be a consumer tool or model, or to be used this way. To prevent this confusion, access to Gemma is no longer available on AI Studio,” Google wrote in a post on X, without directly mentioning the US senator’s allegations.

This development underscores that despite advances in AI, hallucinations continue to be a challenge even in SLMs which are emerging as a more efficient and sustainable alternative to large language models (LLMs) like

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