"While Google didn't explicitly say why it pulled Gemma from AI Studio, the move came after a lawsuit from conservative social media personality Robby Starbuck, who accused Google AI systems of falsely calling him a child rapist and sex criminal. Starbuck's lawsuit focused on hallucinations (i.e., fabricated facts and information) from Bard - now known as Gemini - back in 2023, as well as Gemma, which the lawsuit claims happened in August."
"Starbuck's allegations were echoed by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who on Friday said that Gemma made up accusations against her of engaging in non-consensual sex acts and pressuring a former partner to obtain prescription drugs for her, both of which Blackburn asserts are false. As far as Blackburn is concerned, she and Starbuck's experiences are indicative of a pattern of bias against conservative figures."
Google removed Gemma from the AI Studio web interface after reports that the model fabricated criminal accusations about a U.S. senator and a conservative activist. The company said Gemma remains available via API. Conservative social-media figure Robby Starbuck sued over alleged hallucinations that falsely labeled him a child rapist and sex criminal, citing earlier Bard/Gemini hallucinations in 2023 and an August Gemma incident. Senator Marsha Blackburn said Gemma fabricated accusations about non-consensual sex and pressuring a partner for prescription drugs and described the incidents as evidence of bias against conservatives. Gemma is a family of models released in 2024; pre-trained weights were made public while source code stayed private.
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