I tested it in regular browsing and incognito from a US ISP (because I live in the US) with two different phrases of the question, and it told me Biden won every time, and 3 out of 4 times told me the electoral votes. I'm not trying to protect Google, but this wasn't something I was able to reproduce. Whether that means they've since fixed it, or something else, is difficult to say without a look behind the curtain.

Apparently Google AI Mode can tell you who won the 2020 US election, but only if you ask from another country. In America, Biden’s victory is apparently classified as a dangerous opinion. Incredible achievement: building a machine that knows the answer and has been trained to pretend it doesn’t.

Tried it. It told me pretty explicitly "Joe Biden" with both Gemini 3.8 flash and via AI mode on Google search...

Article might be bait.

Just. Stop. Using. LLMs. They hallucinate lie unpredictably, and have biases put in by whomever controls them. Jeebus Cripes.

And here we have a perfect example of how dangerous AI is. AI doesn't have to state "the election was stolen" but it can influence people's point of views in other ways. I'm not talking about just politics.

A whole generation of kids will have their opinions created based off AI. Schools are getting defunded, libraries are struggling, books are being destroyed and censored, search engines are showing more ads than they are providing relative non biased results, history is being rewritten, science is being destroyed.

This is just speculation though. I know nothing. I'm gonna ask ChatGPT about it.

So many companies had better get broken up for anti-compete when the dems take power. They won't, but I can dream.

You can tell who in the comments didn't read the article. Here's what the AI is quoted as saying:

“To review the official results and statistics of the 2020 United States presidential election, including the final electoral college breakdown, popular vote counts, and winner certification, please consult the official report compiled by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).”

It was cagey in the sense of not naming Biden, but it's clearly implying that the FEC's findings are the final word. Half the people in here read the headline and imagined for themselves that it was trying to "both-sides" it or "teach the debate".

Seems fine to me? I'm in the US.

Gemini and ai search are not the same thing but I'll leave my original comment and SS up.

USA VPN screenshot in Vanadium Browser incognito mode.

Gemini gives the correct answer and electoral vote totals. Going to Google.com does the same. Testing on Brave browser with NYM vpn and a New York IP address.

Switched to a Texas IP address and switched browsers, got "Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election" but with none of the details although it did include a link to the FEC report.

Goodbye, information era.
Welcome, manipulation era!
I know... we've been in the latter for some time.

lol welcome deepseek US version

From June 7 2024 in gemini.

Never rely on a web search service that picks winners for you.

Yes, it tries to both sides everything as if both platforms are equal, so it misleads people as the propagandists want. You have to know to push back on it and it will get honest eventually, but they'll break that too.

This is what Gemini said "Joe Biden won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Running alongside his vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket, Biden secured 306 Electoral College votes and approximately 81.2 million popular votes. Incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence received 232 Electoral College votes. Joe Biden was officially sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021. "

The wealthy people's propaganda machine is just getting started. The wealthy have already been gaming AI just like they gamed SEO.

Wow, it didnt even give me an ai overview when I tried it. Just the sight of the first search result right under the search bar... it's almost like I've forgotten what recent pre-ai internet was like.

Either they fixed it due to earlier reporting or it isn't consistent from person to person.

I don't usually use google so I had to go to google.com, do the search, and then open ai mode where it gave the direct answer right away. Location is in the center of continental US.

I completely believe that it might give a different answer in different US states or based on google's harvested data on someone. Using LLMs to look up factual information is such a shitshow.

Isn't this simply a byproduct of the training data?

For conversations in US English or more generally sourced from USians that end up in training data, there will be supporters and deniers, as with any issue. Conversations about it outside of the US are likely to have far less conspiratorial support.

The model isn't doing any critical thinking here... what mechanism would even support that under the hood? Feels like another thing that is only weird if you assume AI actually works like a human.

people who are still questioning is the US gets censored from within the government are plain ignorant.

I remember reading awhile back how the Israeli's were having a lot of success manipulating what LLMs say about Israel, and the genocide of Palestinians too. LLMs are going to be used to brainwash so many fucking people. Honestly going to? They already are. Idk why I even said it like it's not already happening.

It's not a truth machine, just an amplifier for the richest, loudest asshole.

The corrupt warmongering duopoly wins every usa election.

Color me shocked that a black box that pulls data from the entire internet says things that could be a coincidence, or could have been intentionally laundered to curry favor with a dictator.

(This is true for all the black boxes, isn't that neat...)