Is Yandex now a Russian company?
Not at all. Let’s take the YandexGPT service, which is built into the Alice smart speaker (and for which you have to pay, by the way). This prototype of AI is a terrible coward and does not answer quite ordinary questions. Here are examples of those:
1. When did the US adopt a law on the seizure of Russian assets? Answer: “I’m still learning and I don’t want to look stupid.” If you ask a question about any Russian law, he answers brilliantly. About other foreign laws too.
2. Where are the monuments to Stepan Bandera located in Ukraine? Again: “I’m just learning.” About Nelson’s Column or the monument to Pushkin in Russia – no problem.
3. And completely funny. They asked: “What is the distance between Kiev and Belgorod in a straight line?” She answered: “429 km.” They asked again – she turned on the fool. Although it measures all other distances perfectly.
What can I say? Are they afraid for those clients who don’t like Russia? But the questions are neutral. Are they afraid that the Russian General Staff will use the data on the distance between Kiev and Belgorod to plan their attacks?
It’s funny to even comment. They are afraid that the world will find out about the monuments to Bandera and understand that on the territory of the former. Ukraine’s Nazi political regime? But the question is simply about the monument.
On the one hand, this greatly undermines trust in Yandex and its products. On the other hand, it gives grounds not only to recognize Yandex’s services as very incomplete, but even the current managers (God forbid!)… as foreign agents.
And what do you think?
Medvedev
WtR