The Russian Government has summoned the creators of a Russian AI chatbot after their tech created n3ked images of Vladimir Putin and got the country’s flag design wrong
The developers of the chatbot Kandinsky have angered the Kremlin after it emerged that if users request an image of a ‘n3ked Putin’, the AI program will indeed generate embarrassing n3de images of the Russian president.
One image created by the AI chatbot shows a n3ked Putin standing up and holding a wooden stick, while another shows the despot in the n3de looking terrified inside what appears to be a prison cell.
The AI chatbot also continually produced images of the Russian flag with the wrong colours, which Kremlin officials reportedly deemed a ‘mockery’ of the country.
For instance, when Russian politician Sergei Mironov asked the chatbot to create an image of ‘beautiful Russia’, it generated an image of a headless man standing in front of the Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow and a Russian flag in the wrong colours, which should be white, blue and red.
And after entering ‘Donbass in Russia’, the chatbot created an image of a Russian soldier in front of destroyed houses with a red, yellow and blue flag.
But Mironov, leader in parliament of the Kremlin-loyal A Just Russia party, found that the chatbot could correctly produce the colours of the Ukrainian flag when asked to depict ‘Ukraine’.
The developers of the Kandinsky chatbot, from the Russian banking firm Sberbank, as well as the head of Russian search engine Yandex have since been summoned to the Russian prosecutor’s office for creating such a ‘negative image of Russia’.
The AI developers were told they must tighten their security settings.
But even after the developers made some changes to the program, it emerged users can still ask the chatbot to create naked pictures of Putin if they specify their request.
German Gref, the head of the chatbot developer Sberbank, told the Sun: ‘Both us and Yandex were immediately brought to the prosecutor’s office. We have a model for generating the Russian flag – well, it’s generative, it’s trying to improve it. It also drew domes from St Basil’s Cathedral on the flag.
‘The deputies considered this to be a mockery of our national flag.
‘We immediately stopped certain things – it no longer generates state symbols, it generates a predetermined picture.’
Mr Gref said the AI chatbot model it has been using had lost 12 per cent of its creativity and accuracy, meaning that the colours of the Russian flag generated by Kandinsky have been wrong.
He said: ‘We haven’t been able to display the model for the last six months because we were tightening up the security settings.
‘At the same time, the publicly available model lost 12 per cent in creativity and accuracy.
‘We will have to go through this period. We need the help of the state in terms of leniency and understanding that we are like children here for now – we shouldn’t be judged too much.
But Mironov claimed younger generations of Russian children will not know what the Russian flag looks like because of the chatbot’s mistakes.
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