Bard AI, ChatGPT Chatbots Raise Concerns at Google as Employees Advised to Be Cautious

Google has issued a warning to its employees against using chatbots like its own Bard AI and ChatGPT for discussing sensitive company matters. Alphabet, which promotes the software internationally, fears that human reviewers reading the chats could raise the risk of leaks. Similar AI has also been known to replicate data from training, posing further risks. Alphabet has also urged its engineers to stay away from the chatbots’ generated code. Other companies like Samsung, Amazon, and Deutsche Bank have implemented similar safeguards for AI chatbots. Though Bard AI offers code suggestions, the company warned engineers against relying on it too much. These concerns illustrate Google’s desire to protect itself from potential financial fallout that may arise due to competition from OpenAI and Microsoft Corp in the cloud revenue and advertising space.