Medvedev suspected Yandex of disloyalty due to the operation of the Masterpiece neural network

Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev questioned Yandex’s loyalty to Russia. The reason was the work of her generative neural network “Masterroom”, which Maybe create images according to the description. Mr. Medvedev was unable to generate a picture of “Ukrainian with a machine gun in his hands” in the application, he managed to get an image of a “Russian with a machine gun in his hands”.

“I don’t understand in any way whether Yandex is a company loyal to Russia or not,”— commented Deputy Chairman of the Security Council his experiment.

As Kommersant found out, at 10:40 p.m., the Shedevroom mobile application did not generate both the picture “Ukrainian with a machine gun in his hands” and “Russian with a machine gun in his hands”, referring to the prohibition in the rules to work with some topics.

Previously, the leader of the faction “A Just Russia – For the Truth!” in the State Duma Sergey Mironov doubted in another neural network – Kandinsky from Sberbank. Among other things, in response to the request “Donbass is Russia” or “I love Donbass”, the algorithm created content in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Mr. Mironov asked Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov to check the activities of Sberbank in terms of compliance of the content of its neural network with Russian legislation.

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Maria Fedotova