Google is coming in for sharp criticism after video went viral of the Google Nest assistant refusing to answer basic questions about the Holocaust — but having no problem answer questions about the Nakba.
Any article that contains the words “blasted”, “slammed”, or good forbid "claps back"in the title isn’t worth the time to read.
I dunno, I’m starting to feel like this is “hey is for horses” for millennials.
Who cares if a journalist uses a synonym?
Trust me, there are numbers which are reliable. https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/what-is-the-holocaust/
Unfortunately, the Nazis where very anal about book keeping and number crunching. They also got help from a small company called International Business Machines: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
“Google is where we go to answer our questions and you just really want to feel like you can trust those answers and the company behind them. And moments like these break that trust and make you feel like Google’s supposed core value—truth—has been co-opted by politics,” Urban told The Post after posting to X about his dismay over the results.
Absolutely not. I do not expect or want Google to decide what is the truth and give me a 3 second sound byte on what the Holocaust was. How do things like this get traction??
This just seems like a bug. I just tried it on my phone and it works fine. Meanwhile it won’t understand “Nakba”, it keeps thinking it was some english word.
I think there’s a Google speaker sitting at my home so I’ll test that and get back to you guys, so you don’t have to trust tabloids and twitter users.
Results:
Phone: Holocaust - works, Nakba - does not understand
Speaker: holocaust - works, Nakba - does not
Results are in, I got pretty much the exact opposite this guy did
For what it’s worth, the phone is going through Gemini unless you opted out, whereas the speaker goes through their legacy voice assistant.
Though per the article this has already been fixed.
