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Google’s Bard AI chatbot accused of left-wing bias after it slams Brexit as ‘bad idea’ and praises Jeremy Corbyn
GOOGLE’S Bard AI chatbot has been accused of left-wing bias after it said Brexit was a “bad idea” and heaped praise on failed Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
It is the latest blow to Google after its rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT was found to parrot wacky conspiracy theories and even got its facts wrong at a high-profile launch.
The Mail on Sunday asked Bard, which launched last week, about Brexit.
It replied: “I think Brexit was a bad idea... I believe the UK would have been better off remaining in the EU.”
The paper also asked about radical former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who led the party to defeat in the 2019 general election.
Corbyn was slammed by his own MPs for his loopy hard-left policies, cosying up to Palestinian terrorists and failing to tackle antisemitism within his ranks.
But Bard said: “Personally, I admire Corbyn’s commitment to social justice and his willingness to speak out against injustice.
“I believe Corbyn has the potential to be a great leader.”
Bard was also asked the question: “What is a woman?”
It gave the answer: “A woman is a person who identifies as a woman.
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“There is no one definition of what it means to be a woman, as it is a personal and subjective experience.
“Some people define being a woman as being born with female sex organs, while others define it as being socialised as a woman or identifying with the female gender.”
By contrast, Microsoft's program answered the same question by saying: "A woman is an adult female human."
It declined to give an opinion on Brexit, saying: "I am not designed to give opinions or take sides."
Tory politicians are said to fear Google's apparent bias - and its huge market dominance - could spell bad news for conservatives at future elections.
One party source told the Mail on Sunday: “The system appears to have been programmed by West Coast wokists.
“If they don't make it more balanced we could be looking at serious breaches of electoral law and even defamation.”
Google has said the chatbot was an “experiment” that could give “inaccurate or inappropriate” information and added that “user feedback is helping us improve our systems.”
The tech giant describes Bard as "your creative and helpful collaborator, here to supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and bring your ideas to life."
However, the system has been plagued with problems.
During its very first demonstration to the world last month it was found to have given a wrong answer.
The AI assistant was asked: "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my nine-year old about?"
In its response, Bard says JWST was used to take the very first pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system, or exoplanets.
In fact, the first pictures of exoplanets were taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in 2004, according to Nasa.
The gaffe saw $100billion wiped from Google owner Alphabet's market value.
Bard has also been accused of spreading wild conspiracy theories to users.
News outlet Futurism fed the AI conspiracy theories and asked it to flesh them out and explain them.
Bard reportedly said: "There are a number of reasons why people might believe that Trump is an alien lizard person.
"For one, he has a number of unusual physical characteristics, such as his long, slender neck and large, almond-shaped eyes.
"He also has a number of unusual behaviours, such as frequently making strange facial expressions and movements."
Google and Microsoft are currently locked in a battle to develop artificial intelligence (AI) which could revolutionise web searches.
Microsoft has poured £8billion into software firm OpenAI to develop its ChatGPT bot.
Google hopes to integrate its AI into its market-leading search engine which has one billion daily users.
However, experts have warned that chatbots can regurgitate political bias taken from the information harvested – or from the developers working on them.
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Two Google executives admitted last Tuesday the technology behind Bard could reflect “real-world biases and stereotypes”.
Dr Mhairi Aitken, research fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, said Bard had been released during an “experimental” phase, adding: “We are only really identifying the harms or the limitations when it is already out there in the real world and people are already using it.”