The Google device was able to deliver a detailed description of “The Nakba.”

Google is coming in for sharp criticism after video went viral of the Google Nest assistant refusing to answer basic questions about the Holocaust — but having no problem answer questions about the Nakba.

  • morrowind
    251·
    5 months ago

    This just seems like a bug. I just tried it on my phone and it works fine. Meanwhile it won’t understand “Nakba”, it keeps thinking it was some english word.

    I think there’s a Google speaker sitting at my home so I’ll test that and get back to you guys, so you don’t have to trust tabloids and twitter users.

    Results:

    Phone: Holocaust - works, Nakba - does not understand

    Speaker: holocaust - works, Nakba - does not

    Results are in, I got pretty much the exact opposite this guy did

        • LwL@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          Yea that “joke” that doesnt even have a punchline is just acting like jews act the way israel does. Which is rare if it happens at all.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      For what it’s worth, the phone is going through Gemini unless you opted out, whereas the speaker goes through their legacy voice assistant.

      Though per the article this has already been fixed.

      • morrowind
        3·
        5 months ago

        I opted out, I’m still on the regular assistant

  • lakemalcom10@lemm.ee
    237·
    5 months ago

    “Google is where we go to answer our questions and you just really want to feel like you can trust those answers and the company behind them. And moments like these break that trust and make you feel like Google’s supposed core value—truth—has been co-opted by politics,” Urban told The Post after posting to X about his dismay over the results.

    Absolutely not. I do not expect or want Google to decide what is the truth and give me a 3 second sound byte on what the Holocaust was. How do things like this get traction??