Overview
- Google removed Gemma from the AI Studio interface and kept access for developers through the API.
- Senator Marsha Blackburn’s letter describes a false response about a 1987 campaign, incorrect sourcing links, and an invented accuser.
- The company says Gemma was not intended for consumer factual queries and describes hallucinations as a known industry problem.
- Blackburn calls the output defamation and presses Google for safeguards and hearings on AI accountability.
- Reporting notes a related defamation lawsuit by Robby Starbuck and broader conservative claims of bias in Google’s AI systems.