Google’s AI Chatbot uses your Gmail data for training? Google says no
Google continues to face tough questions about its Bard AI chatbot after it was alleged that the company is using private Gmail data to train the chatbot. Concerns were raised recently when a researcher using the Bard AI chatbot asked where it gets its training data, to which the AI chatbot said internal data from Gmail. Now Google has quashed those worries.
Google has been quoted by The Register as saying that it will not train its AI chatbot to access text from private Gmail accounts.
The company suggested that like most large language models (LLMs), Bard has a tendency to provide inaccurate or misleading information, and the models can do so with complete confidence, making you feel that the information shared is true. “This is an example of that. We don’t use personal information from your Gmail or other private apps and services to improve Bard,” Google said.
The company is clearly trying to come clean by blaming all the LLMs here, but we have to understand that Bard is developed by Google, so any concerns about Bard are obviously directed at the company.
Google has understandably slowed down its AI chatbot, which only made select countries public last week. Meanwhile, Microsoft is using OpenAI’s capabilities in this arena to integrate ChatGPT v4.0 with Bing and Edge browsers. Google is supposed to be the AI champion in the field, but everyone can see that the company is struggling against the rapid progress made by ChatGPT.
Microsoft has reportedly seen web traffic for Bing search increase since it got the ChatGPT v4.0 chatbot running on the search engine. It has amassed hundreds of millions of users and also has a Plus subscription that gives you more features for free.
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