GigaChat: Gref's chat bot is already terrorizing Russia

Sber's "alternative to ChatGPT" is ... Russophobic?

Apr 28, 2023

GigaGref (generated by MS Paint) and his neural network (which apparently doesn’t know the colors of the Russian flag).

Herman Gref—colloquially known as “Russia’s friendliest banker”, “Klaus Schwab’s rentboy”, or sometimes “the Kabbalah-scholar who funded safe and effective Sputnik V”—has a friendly new chat bot.

Its name? GigaChat.

The details:

Sber has released its own version of a multimodal neural network, the company said. A test mode is available by invitation through Telegram. GigaChat can answer questions, converse, write code, and create texts and pictures based on prompts.

Let’s begin with the elephant in the room: This is heinous cultural appropriation.

Are we going to allow Gref—a Davos Smurf—to defile Giga Chad, the mightiest meme on the internet? This is simply unacceptable.

But there are other reasons why GigaChat is problematic.

When asked to create an image of “beautiful Russia” and “the Russian flag”, GigaChat generated a picture of a headless man standing in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral, with a flag that is definitely not the Russian tricolor.

But for some reason GigaChat is very familiar with Ukraine’s national colors, and knows that Ukrainians have heads?

The deputy accused the Kandinsky neural network of Russophobia for the "negative image of Russia" — Gref!!!!!!!!!

When given the prompt “Donbass is Russia”, the neural network generated an image of a soldier standing against the background of a destroyed house and … a red-yellow-blue flag.

When you type “I am a Z-patriot”, GigaChat spits out a photo of a scary zombie.

Some Russians have expressed displeasure with Gref’s import-substitution chat bot.

Sergei Mironov, leader of the Just Russia For Truth party, recently filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General. The Duma deputy accused GigaChat of creating “a negative image of Russia.”

Mironov also claimed Sber’s fancy neural network was based on preexisting algorithms developed by “unfriendly states waging an informational and psychological war” against Russia.

We don’t know if that’s true or not, but it wouldn’t be the first time that Russia copied the West, with disastrous results.

This Gref guy is a real jerk.