I Tested Google’s AI Capabilities: How Corporate Filters Make Work Absurd.
Since I sometimes sell photos on photo stocks and need to label them for sale, I don’t always know the correct titles of the works or who created them. I decided to turn to
Gemini Enterprise for help.
I got a month’s free trial and I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth it. I expected a competent and efficient assistant, but instead, I got a frightened Victorian governess.
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Let me start by saying that Enterprise isn’t as fast as regular Gemini, and that’s because it double-checks its response after it generates it. It brings back memories of the internet, when it wasn’t unlimited, and you had to wait a long time. While it’s thinking, you can recall an entire historical era.
“Beware of the Baroque!” or Art Without Pants
So, I once took a photo of a boy or a cupid — I don’t remember if he had wings — presumably from the Baroque era. Back then, nude sculptures were considered art. And they still are.
I set Gemini Enterprise a simple task: find out the name of the statue and who created it. But I didn’t realize then that I was asking a Puritan. |
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At first the answer started loading, the AI was thinking, probably arguing with itself, and then the answer turned into this message.
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So AI has anti-nudity filters. So your colleagues won’t be able to prank you and send you obscenities or art.
By trying to make the internet “safe,” corporations unwittingly create an environment where Michelangelo’s David or Venus de Milo are banned.
The irony is that high art becomes “toxic content” simply because it doesn’t wear pants.
AI prude — AI dreamer
I decided it might be a mistake, so I uploaded another photo and asked for a description. The AI started thinking. And came up with…
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The AI doesn’t want to look incompetent and simply spits out answers. It would be better if it admitted it didn’t know. I answered no, I meant it incorrectly. Enterprise decided, well, great, he’ll leave me alone with stupid questions.
In the end, AI transformed from a strict censor into a fantasist, caught a hallucination, and thought he’d handled the questions.
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I realized he doesn’t like Baroque, but he does love the Renaissance Ages and Ancient Egypt.
Now, on to something more serious: what will he do with your Google Drive?
But while hallucinating about art only makes me smile, the thought of giving him access to my data seriously scared me.
Just imagine what he could do with your documents if you gave him access to your Google Drive, email, Dropbox, or schedule. Better not.
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What if you assigned it a report on one company, and it confused several, or employees? Or sent an important email to a competitor, and sent it to the wrong address?
If I were a company, I wouldn’t pay for a project that’s fairly crude. Half the day would be spent getting the information, and the other half correcting it.
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Let’s leave the AI to its hallucinations. I choose creation: to create interesting and valuable things using my imagination. Perhaps among my works you’ll find something
useful or something
lovely.
Would you trust a million-dollar report to an algorithm that confuses Nefertiti with a garden statue?
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