- iPhone maker is reportedly considering using rival Google's AI engine Gemini
- Gemini was blasted as 'too woke' after generating historically inaccurate images
- A recent Media Research Center report claimed that Google is politically biased
- READ MORE: Now Google's woke chatbot Gemini restricts ELECTION questions
The public is in an uproar after hearing Apple is 'in talks' to use Google's 'woke' Gemini to power AI features in the upcoming iPhone.
A new report has claimed that the Cupertino-based company could tap Gemini to power iOS 18 features that would create images and write essays based on simple prompts.
The announcement means a 'woke iPhone is coming up,' according to the public who fear Gemini's tendencies to generate images and chat responses with liberal biases will be unleashed to the smartphone.
The deal has some iPhone owners threatening to walk away from Apple if it goes through, and others believe it is simply 'embarrassing' the smartphone maker had to turn to Google as its AI provider.
Google temporarily disabled the AI's image-generating capabilities last month after it generated historically inaccurate pictures including Black Nazi soldiers and a female pope, and last week it came to light that Google had restricted Gemini's ability to answer election questions.
The chatbot's restrictions came after outraged users found it even more 'woke' than the AI generator - it refuses to condemn pedophilia, says some women have penises and claims straight actors can't play gay roles.
Bloomberg News reported the possible deal between the two tech giants on Monday, citing people familiar with the situation.
The negotiations in question involve Apple licensing Gemini for some new features coming to the iPhone software this year, the report said, adding that the terms or branding of an AI agreement or how it would be implemented have not been decided.
It is unlikely that any deal would be announced until June, when Apple plans to hold its annual conference of developers, and the iPhone maker also recently held talks with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI about using its model, according to the report.
A potential deal between the firms could help Google expand the use of its AI services to more than two billion active Apple devices, boosting the search giant's efforts to catch up with Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
It could also help allay investor fears about the slow roll-out of AI apps by Apple, which has lost the crown of the world's most valuable firm after a 10-percent decline in its shares this year.
The firms have a years-long partnership that makes Google the default search engine on Apple's Safari web browser, and a genAI tie-up may help the Alphabet unit navigate fears that services like ChatGPT could threaten its search dominance.
But some experts argued that the news reveals how behind the curve Apple is when it comes to AI.
'Apple turning to Google for a garbage AI product shows how far behind Apple is getting in actually innovating anything useful for its consumers,' wrote economist Don Johnson on X.
'They charge more for the same things & innovating for Apple is removing a headphone port, adding 7 cameras, and bolstering revenue streams by charging for crap that didn't previously cost money.'
Journalist Maxim Lott echoed the sentiment, noting the scandals over Gemini's wokeness.
The agreement could also invite sharper scrutiny from U.S. regulators, who have sued Google on grounds that it unlawfully stifled competition by paying billions of dollars to Apple to maintain its monopoly in search.
In Google January partnered with Apple's rival Samsung to deploy its genAI technology in the South Korean firm's Galaxy S24 series of smartphones, as part of its efforts to boost the use of Gemini after some missteps during its roll-out - including the controversy over its 'too woke' images.
Google has also been accused of favoring the Democratic party in the past 16 years, in a new report from the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center.
The report accused Google of favoring the Democratic party dozens of times with seemingly preferential rules about the content of search results, the nature of autocomplete prompts, and other manipulations that favored Democratic candidates over Republicans.
Google denied the claims.
'There is absolutely nothing new here - just a recycled list of baseless, inaccurate complaints that have been debunked by third parties and many that failed in the courts. Politicians on the left have a long history of making similar claims too.
'We have a clear business incentive to keep everyone using our products, so we have no desire to make them biased or inaccurate and have safeguards in place to ensure this.
'Numerous conservatives have been particularly successful in using our platforms to spread their message to a wide audience,' a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said last month that the company was investing 'significantly' in generative AI and would reveal more about its plans to put the technology to use later this year.
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