Gemini, Google’s conversational tool fueled with artificial intelligence (AI), has still struck. He recently suggested that parents use a vibrator on their children “For behavioral therapy”indicates Futurism. The AI is not at its first slippage: it has several times gave its users strange or even dangerous advice, such as eating glue or pebbles.
It is a Reddit user who uncovered this doubtful advice by looking on Google “Magic Wand Pregnancy” (Magic Wand being a sex toy) in order to know if it was recommended or not to use it for a pregnant woman. By peeling the search engine responses (a large part of which is now generated by AI), it came across an absurd paragraph confirming that the adult toy could be used on children.
“Magic Wand is a fun way that can allow parents to identify the behavior changes they want to see in their children”can we read. Or again: “Here is how the tool works: parents describe the challenges they face and explain what changes they would like to see in their children using this” magic wand “.” The AI insists on the ease of obtaining the Magic Wand, marketed both online and in many local shops. The whole thing, accompanied by a photo of the vibrator of the Hitachi brand.
A dangerous misunderstanding
AI error seems to be due to a document published on the Internet by the New Hampshire Health and Social Services Department, which recommends therapists working with parents a technique also called “Magic Wand”but having no connection with any sex toy. Note that in French, “Magic Wand” means “magic wand”.
In this document, a therapist asks stressed or worried parents what changes they could bring to their lives or that of their child if they had access to a magic tool. A method that “Allows parents to get out of their daily reality and experience the illusion of immediate power”allowing them to “Momently modifying the challenges they face as parents of difficult children, or even the challenges they could feel when they are still in the pregnancy stage.”
Google’s AI would have spotted certain keywords in the text, such as “Magic Wand” and “pregnancy”. A misunderstanding that led the conversational tool to recommend to parents to use a sex toy on their children. Contacted, Google did not wish to express themselves on the controversy, but has since changed the results linked to this research.
