Newspaper archives still trump answers generated by AI

> To further analyse the extent of AI’s handicap, I questioned both ChatGPT and Gemini about the “first Indian Prime Minister to visit Palestine”; it answered — Narendra Modi on February 10, 2018, when he visited Ramallah in the West Bank and held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. However, a look into The Hindu’s archives shows that Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the Gaza Strip on May 19, 1960. In an article dated May 20, 1960, The Hindu recounts how Mr. Nehru made a one-day trip to the United Nations Emergency Force and Palestinian refugee camps ...

> ... A look into the results given by the AI tools shows that in spite of several newspaper reports of Mr. Nehru’s visit, AI challenged its veracity as Mr. Nehru’s visit was to Gaza — then occupied by the UAR. It chose to classify Mr. Modi’s visit to Ramallah as the first instance as it was governed by the Palestinian Authority. However, India had recognised both Palestine (comprising the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) and Israel in 1948 itself ... In spite of AI’s continued learning, archives of century-old newspapers like The Hindu present facts without the filter of an algorithm tailored around the user’s preferences, political ideology and search patterns. The above examples show AI’s lack of fact-checking, limited access to older news reports, and failure to remain unbiased.

This confirms what I once complained about here of - increasing censorship on western online platform is perhaps tied to preventing AI from "learning" more, to deliberately introduce bias. I've only observed it on the subjects of the Russia-Ukraine war, Israel's ongoing genocide and Palestine's continued occupation. But apparently other "taboo" political subjects are also seeing increased censorship - The erasure of Luigi Mangione - https://substack.evancarroll.com/p/the-erasure-of-luigi-mang...