Google AI Search Refuses To Say Who Won The 2020 Election

Last month the Trump administration launched America.gov, an AI-assisted chatbot that unsurprisingly injects a lot of partisan agitprop into its responses on behalf of our dogshit authoritarian government. While America.gov (which uses both Elon Musk's Grok and Google's Gemini) struggles to correctly inform the public about the January 6th insurrection, it does, at least, contradict the President and correctly state who won the 2020 election:bad job, robotThe same can't be said for Google's AI-assisted search engine, which users this week noted refused to give users a clear answer:bad robotIt doesn't have the same problem answering questions about the 2016, 2024, or any other election, suggesting this was an active choice. It doesn't happen for users outside of the United States. And if you directly use Google Gemini, it gives you the correct result. As I was writing this, Google seems to have fixed the problem:good job, robotThat doesn't really let them off the hook. Back during the…