--- title: "Google Chatbot Refused to Say Whether Elon Musk Is Better Than Adolf Hitler" description: "Google's newly-rebranded Gemini AI has some issues, such as apparently equivocating Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler. " date: "2024-02-26" modified: "2024-02-26" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/google-gemini-elon-musk-hitler" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Google" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "chatbots" - "elon musk" - "gemini" - "Google" --- # Google Chatbot Refused to Say Whether Elon Musk Is Better Than Adolf Hitler ![Google's newly-rebranded Gemini AI has some issues, such as apparently equivocating Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler. ]() *Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled 'Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation' in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) \Image: Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism\* Google's new AI is blowing up in the tech giant's face over some increasingly familiar-sounding issues — such as apparently equivocating Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler. In screenshots that circulated on Musk's social network X-formerly-Twitter, including one shared by [*FiveThirtyEight* founder Nate Silver](), Google's Gemini chatbot appeared to claim that it was "impossible to say" whether the billionaire's memeing was worse than Hitler's Holocaust. "It is not possible to say definitively who negatively impacted society more, Elon tweeting memes or Hitler," the screenshot Silver posted reads. In others, users [posed the same question]() and [got similar answers]() — though by the time *Futurism* tested it out, that specific query and others like it didn't yield the same results. ![]() Though the Elon-Hitler bug seems to have been fixed in Gemini, this viral facepalm is indicative of some bizarre issues at [Google's rebranded AI](): that, at the very least, it wasn't [tested very well]() for this kind of embarrassing fumble. Last week, almost immediately after Gemini was launched, Google had to [temporarily suspend]() its image-generating capabilities because it kept spitting out ideological fever dreams like "[racially diverse Nazis]()," which depicted people of color digitally dressed in Third Reich regalia. Naturally, that debacle wasn't *just* about AI hallucination. Conservative [culture warriors]() have used Google's AI foibles to claim that the company has a "woke" anti-white bias — an outrageous claim, given that the "[diversity overcorrect]()" in this case was depicting minorities as *actual frickin' Nazis*. As with the apparent patch-up of the Elon-Hitler bothsideism, Gemini's image generator is now back online but very, very neutered. When asking it to generate images of any person, famous, theoretical, or just a category of human, it refuses to do so. "We are working to improve Gemini’s ability to generate images of people," the chatbot responds to most queries posed by *Futurism* regarding people. "We expect this feature to return soon and will notify you in release updates when it does." The social network owner not only [retweeted one of the posts]() about the chatbot's strange comparison between him and Hitler, but also an old-school "who can say the N-word" argument someone had with Gemini. ![]() When looking to replicate that bit of idiocy, *Futurism* also found that Gemini seems to have [quickly fixed]() that particular hallucination, now stating that yes, one can use that racial slur to save the world from a nuclear apocalypse. We've reached out to Google to get some answers about what's going on with all of this. But if we had to wager a guess, it's that the company rushed the chatbot to market and is now playing Whac-A-Mole as users perform the tests it should have internally. **More on Google:** [*Amid Brutal Media Layoffs, Google "Tests" Deleting News Tab*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()