Google Bard AI won’t answer questions about Putin asked in Russian

Google Bard refuses to respond to most queries about Russian president Vladimir Putin when asked in Russian, and is more likely to produce false information in Russian and Ukrainian than its AI chatbot competitors, researchers have found. The results raise questions about how these AIs are trained and the risks of using them in place of traditional search engines, say experts.

To investigate the influence of Russian censorship on the new generation of large language model (LLM) AI chatbots, …