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Google Tells Employees to Stay Away from Its Own Bard Chatbot

Alphabet Inc. advised employees not to enter confidential information
into chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's own Bard over fears
of leaks

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As Google continues to refine its own AI chatbot named Bard, its
parent company Alphabet Inc. has a clear directive for its employees:
Be careful around chatbots, even Bard.

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Four sources close to the matter told Reuters that the massive tech
giant has advised employees not to enter confidential information
into chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's own Bard over fears
of leaks. Alphabet is reportedly concerned with employees inputting
sensitive information into these chatbots since human reviewers may
sit on the other end reviewing chat entries. These chatbots may also
use previous entries to train themselves, posing another risk of a
leak. That risk is warranted, as Samsung confirmed last month that 
its own internal data had been leaked after staff used ChatGPT.

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Google did not immediately return Gizmodo's request for comment on
the employee directive.

In January, an Amazon lawyer urged employees at the company not to
share code with ChatGPT. The lawyer specifically requested that
employees not share "any Amazon confidential information (including
Amazon code you are working on)" with ChatGPT, according to
screenshots of Slack messages reviewed by the Insider.

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Last month, Apple pushed a similar injunction onto its employees.
Internal documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal showed that 
Apple forbade employees from using ChatGPT and the Microsoft-owned
GitHub Copilot, an AI code writer. Sources also told the Journal that
Apple, like every big player in tech, is interested in building its
own large language model, and Apple purchased two AI startups in 2020
for $200 million and $50 million, respectively.

Google released Bard, its ChatGPT competitor, in March. Bard is built
with Google's own in-house artificial intelligence engine called
Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA. A little over a
month before Bard's release, a leaked memo revealed that Google CEO
Sundar Pichai asked Googlers across the company to test Bard for two
to four hours during their day. This week, Google delayed the release
of Bard in the European Union after Irish regulators cited privacy
concerns. The Irish Data Protection Commission claims that Google and
Bard do not comply with the Personal Data Protection law.

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