Google chatbot incident is debated on the Internet, says SEO consultant Gagan Gotra noticedthat the company’s search engine provides links to users’ correspondence with Bard.
The American corporation officially introduced the Bard artificial intelligence chatbot in February 2023. In July, Google updated its privacy policy to indicate that all information from all sites indexed by the Google search engine would be used to train Bard.
As researcher Gotra noted, some user requests to the chatbot were in the public domain. It turned out that if you enter the query “site:bard.google.com/share”, you can receive some requests from people who contacted the chatbot. In addition to the Google search engine, Yandex and Bing provided access to conversations with Bard.
Although user data was not specified, the requests themselves could contain sensitive information, warned Gothra.
AI specialist at DeepMind (a British-American subsidiary of Google), Peter Liu, responded to Gort’s comment, pointing out that only those chats in which the user activated the “Share” option appeared in the search results. This functionality allows you to show the results of your conversation with the bot to third parties.
But users in the comments criticized this approach and said that they did not want information about communicating with the chatbot to be available to everyone on the Internet.
The company later closed access to these search results. As indicated by a Google public relations representative, the company is working to stop indexing chats with the Bard search engine.
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Source: RB
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