- Elon Musk has been harshly critical of Google over the past week.
- Last week, Google suspended its AI image generation tool after users complained that it was “too awake.”
- Musk has always been involved in this controversy, using it to promote his AI chatbot, Grok.
Elon Musk A new obsession was born: Google.
The billionaire posts about Big Tech companies on X at a steady pace. Since the launch of his Gemini image generator at Google, he has shared and responded to over 100 of his posts about the company.
Of course, most of these are important.
Last week, Google was forced to suspend Gemini’s image generation capabilities after a wave of criticism that Gemini was “too woke.” Users complained that Gemini produced historically inaccurate images of people of color and provided strange answers to some queries.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said the company hopes to have its image generation tool online again within “a few weeks.” He added that the problem was that the bona fide feature had been applied “too blatantly”.
In the post of XMusk claimed that Google executives assured him that the company would “take immediate action to correct Gemini’s racial and gender bias.”
Musk has frequently criticized what he calls “woke” policies and accused Google of running “insane, racist, anti-civilizational programs” on its AI. Tesla’s CEO also went all in on other aspects of Google’s business, including its flagship search engine.
“Gemini is certainly just the tip of the iceberg. The same thing is happening with Google search,” says billionaire In one reply he said:. Musk also attacked the company’s email service, Gmail, and appeared to hint at a competing product called Gmail.X-mail“was” coming.
personal attack
Not content with pursuing Google’s products, Musk also fired several shots at employees.
In one reply to a user’s post, Big tech companies donate “There almost seems to be a pattern,” he said, noting that in 2020, there was more support for Democrats than for Republicans.
BI could not independently verify the numbers cited in the post, but data from the 2020 election cycle shows that 83.73% of donations from Google’s parent company Alphabet to congressional candidates went to Democrats, and 6.34% went to Democrats. is shown to have gone to the Republicans.
The figures were compiled by OpenSecrets, a charity that publishes campaign finance and lobbying data.
The billionaire also named Gemini’s product leader, jack kratic.
Musk shares screenshot of Krawczyk’s post I have written: “This is a big part of why Google’s AI is racist and sexist.”
Google and Krawczyk company representatives did not immediately respond to BI’s requests for comment outside of normal business hours.
To Musk’s credit, Google’s AI also seemed harsh on him personally.
some reports and advertised screenshot Mr. Musk has shown that Mr. Gemini can’t seem to say that Mr. Musk is any worse than Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler. When BI tested the prompt a few days later, Gemini said comparing Musk to historical figures was “inaccurate and totally inappropriate.”
Gemini vs Grok
Musk is putting more than his reputation at stake in this particular fight.
After having similar problems with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Musk founded his own AI company and released Grok, a competing chatbot. He claims he wants the bot to be more fun and less “woke” than existing rivals.
Musk is certainly trying to use the Gemini controversy to highlight the benefits of having an AI like Grok.
The billionaire has been sharing memes comparing xAI’s efforts to rivals and praising them as “truth-seeking to the fullest.” One of his posts on this subject even managed to provoke a reaction from ChatGPT’s X account.Bot account answered one A post titled “Is this true?”
“Perhaps now it’s clear why @xAI’s Grok is so important.” Musk said in the post.. “It’s far from perfect at the moment, but it will improve rapidly. V1.5 will be released within two weeks of his. A thorough pursuit of the truth, without worrying about criticism, is what has helped us so far. It has become even more important.”
Representatives for Mr. Musk did not immediately respond to BI’s request for comment outside of normal business hours.
