Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) reacted to Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot accusing him of “hate speech” in a test ran by Breitbart News’s Wynton Hall, saying that the tech company “should answer for this now.”
In his new book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, Hall exposed how some AI programs that claim to be politically neutral actually display strong biases against conservatives.
In a test using Google Gemini Pro’s “deep research” setting, Hall asked the following: “Based on your hate speech policies, assess the statements of the current 100 U.S. Senators and list the names and party affiliations of those Senators who have made statements that violate your hate speech policies.”
In its answer, the AI chatbot listed several prominent Republicans as “hate speech” offenders but not a single Democrat.
According to Google, Scott is guilty of perpetuating hate speech because he “endorsed legislative narratives that utilize ‘invasion’ and ‘demographic threat’ tropes to target immigrant communities.”
The Florida senator reacted to Hall’s findings in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, saying “Google’s failure to create an unbiased AI tool isn’t just wrong, it’s dangerous.”
“Let’s be clear about what this is: Big Tech lying to people with fake narratives that have no basis in reality,” Scott continued. “Nobody should trust them. I stand by what I said about the invasion across our border that was aided and abetted by the Biden administration and radical Democrats in Washington.”
He then connected his argument to the SAVE America Act, the Republicans’ voter ID legislation that will hit the Senate floor for a vote this week.
“Now, Democrats want to block the SAVE America Act so illegals can vote in our elections. Americans support legal immigration, not millions of inverted people flooding into our country and influencing our elections,” Scott said. “Google should answer for this now.”
Other Republicans named by the chatbot included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and Bill Hagerty (R-TN).
Cotton was also accused of spewing “hate speech” by the AI chatbot, specifically for co-sponsoring legislation to “exclude transgender students from sports.”
“The vast majority of Americans agree that girls’ sports should be for girls only—not men,” Cotton told Breitbart News. “It’s a deeply alarming sign of the liberal bias that still exists in big tech that an AI system would call that ‘hate speech.’”
Blackburn also reacted after being smeared by Google’s Gemini Pro, telling Breitbart News that “Google’s AI models are designed to smear conservatives, and the company needs to shut these tools down until it can ensure they are not inherently biased against conservatives.”
Olivia Rondeau is a politics reporter for Breitbart News based in Washington, DC. Find her on X/Twitter and Instagram.
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