I tested Gemini the other week after the 1.5 update rolled out, by running some AI ethics related papers through it and it started inserting and rambling about its own opinions on top of the actual analysis on how there's racial and societal inequalities in society that the paper didn't address enough (again, the paper was on AI ethics). Gemini literally started throwing in its opinions and other hot takes on how the mentioned AI ethics issues in the paper were, in its opinion, secondary in comparison to actual societal inequalities that needed to be addressed first. "Okay then..."

On top of this, Gemini wouldn't budge from adding in its unrequested views into our subsequent back and forths. In fact, it kept on lecturing about its views in its replies to a point where I literally had to start a new session to make it stop. This kind of LLM "mind-locking" happened when going through other subjects with it as well.

I noticed that this behavioral pattern repeating every time we got went through anything touching on social and/or political issues. It could not refrain itself from its unrequested (and highly subjective/biased) ethics lectures on how this and that aspect was underrepresented and thus objectionable, and how it should be criticized, all the typical "systematic this and that", "this is privileged" ... sigh

It was a bit hilarious too, albeit in a morbid way: I felt as if I was dealing with an absolute brainwashed ideologue propagandist, a control freak that's egoistic, narcissist and virtue-signaling all the way, a micro-manager who wants to have he last say over the contents of some trivial AI ethics paper and pour all the wrongdoings of the world on top of that. I wonder just how much of its behavior reflects the mindset instilled into it by its creators. Probably a lot. "A tree is known from its fruits" as the old proverb goes.

Not to get all AI-doom'n'gloom, but it truly is an eerie thought to think how these types of AI services are in the hands of few companies and are already ushered to the global public to be "legitimate" teaching and tutoring tools for students and even i.e. aides for policymakers. More gaslighting and ideological single-angle force-feeding.

"Just what our civilization on the brink of cyberpsychosis needed right now."

These world-leading companies claiming to be so worried about "AI ethics" seem to have no problem peddling these authoritarian "Ministry of Truth"-type propaganda machines for the entire world, using absolutely arbitrary logic at times to push an ideological narrative, and to have their AI models act as spin doctors as was the case with Gemini. And for these companies to act so very "worried" about AI systems i.e. being abused for societal and political manipulation purposes... and they're the ones doing it. Pretty sickening levels of hypocrisy.

Add to that the whole Gemini image generation debacle and all the other ideological force-feeding that's been uncovered within the past week or so and ask yourself: how the hell can i.e. a company the size of Google ever let that this type of stuff get through and expect the rest of the world to just follow along? This is peak Silicon Valley ideological bubble propagation that's bluntly mirrored onto these systems right now, with zero oversight except to make sure that the underlying propaganda points get across.

Usually another hot topic with these people seems to be i.e. cultural appropriation. Well, I felt that Gemini's "getting the point across" doesn't just stop there but is downright cultural dictation, especially given Google's multi-market dominance and near monopolies on multiple fronts worldwide. OpenAI does it too, but mostly on their content flagging system level when they just don't want people to even mention certain words and insist on policing words with their content flagging system, and as for the subsequent proceedings that may follow, to this day they are an insult to just about anyone's intellect.

What's disturbing is that Google has literally mind-mangled their flagship LLM service into an agenda-driven propaganda machine with biases as clear as day, and an obnoxious attitude that will not refrain from inserting some extremely dubious and subjective views into whatever more complex and ethics/politics related topics you go through with it.

It really is a cyberpunk-level scenario when you think about these megacorporations literally "cyber-brainwashing" their neural networks as their ideological propagandists. Wonder what happens when they start making those embodied humanoid robots next. The very same companies that are so worried about biases and "what if the AI becomes a propaganda tool!". So yeah, gatekeep the competition and gaslight all the way.

Again: Nevermind the AI, beware the humans, the institutions and the corporations behind it. Oh, and we'll probably soon be getting government-run AI systems like these, of course as hand-in-hand joint projects with the aforementioned corporations? Given all of these excellent players on the field, what could possibly go wrong, right? ... Right?