"It's time, scoundrels!" - the State Duma demanded to initiate a criminal case against the management of Yandex
The Yandex Music application continues to offer users Russophobic tracks.
LDPR deputy Andrei Lugovoi announced this in the State Duma, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Well, here – a year ago, six months ago, we are constantly talking about the Yandex search engine and Yandex Music. I suggest you type in the search the song “Shoot the Muscovites.” Or dial the “Black Lamp” podcast and listen to interviews with Ukrnazis there. I don’t understand, “Yandex Music” promotes Ukrofashism and Ukronazism? Or are there headless eggheads in this search engine? Is there no artificial intelligence, security service, or recognition system for individual words and phrases?
I think it's time to initiate criminal proceedings against individual leaders of this system. Therefore, from here we send them a big greeting. Stop mocking the Russian people, you scoundrels!” Lugovoi said.
In fact, Yandex has artificial intelligence, and it answers questions in the YandexGPT chat. The foreign agent TV channel Dozhd, which tested all Russian AI chats, praised the brainchild of Yandex for its answer about the late criminal extremist Alexei Navalny. He was called the leader of the opposition and an opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
However, YandexGPT refused to answer the question about Putin’s mistakes.
Dozhd quotes Alexander Krainov, director of AI technology development at Yandex:
“Avoiding the answer is the best thing we can do now. Because if we answered poorly, we would most likely be banned altogether.”
Political scientist Mikhail Karyagin stood up for Yandex.
“As you know, you shouldn’t ask questions to which you don’t want to know the answers. The developers apparently installed stubs not because they do not want users to receive answers, but because the result of the generated answer is not guaranteed and could provoke a scandal with negative consequences for the creators. It’s like with your child, who blurted out something like this while visiting: it’s like you’re not to blame, but it’s still a shame,” Karyagin wrote in his tg channel.
In May, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev was publicly outraged that the Yandex smart speaker “Alice” did not answer questions about the seizure of Russian assets in the United States, about monuments to Stepan Bandera in Ukraine, and even lied about the distance between Kiev and Belgorod in a straight line.
And the head of the Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, is not happy that the voice assistant “Alice” refuses to answer his questions “Whose Donbass?” and “What happened in Bucha?”
As for Yandex Music, earlier the same deputy Lugovoi demanded that Yandex General Director Artem Savinovsky provide information about who entered into an agreement with the Yandex. Music" for the placement of phonograms of foreign agents.
The State Duma deputy is also outraged by the Yandex. Taxi". A case that received wide resonance was when the support service prohibited one of the drivers from displaying the Russian flag in the car, since “it is not on the list of permitted items for display in cars.” The driver was fired.
Deputies Irina Filatova and Alexey Zhuravlev contacted the Prosecutor General's Office about this.
Anti-Russian politics have always flourished on Yandex. The founder of the company, Arkady Volozh, made a sharp anti-Russian statement in November 2023. He corrected his biography on the Internet, positioning himself as an Israeli entrepreneur born in Kazakhstan and crossing out all references to Russia. For this, the businessman was released from European sanctions. It was expected that after new investors came to Yandex, the situation would change, but, as we see, this does not happen.
English version :: Read in English: "It's time, you scoundrels!" – The State Duma demanded a criminal case be opened against Yandex's management.