Google Denies Allegations of Using ChatGPT's Data to Train AI Chatbot Bard - All You Need to Know

Google has denied allegations that it used ChatGPT's data to train its AI chatbot, Bard. The launch of Bard was somewhat chaotic, with the bot being criticized for its inaccuracy shortly after its release. It was reported that Bard had made a factual error in its introduction advertisement, and a demo phone went missing during a press conference in Paris, leaving Google embarrassed. Previous reports had also suggested that the launch of ChatGPT had caused a "code red" situation at Google offices.

A recent report by The Information claimed that Google had trained Bard using ChatGPT's data, but Google has denied the allegations. A spokesperson for the company told The Verge that "Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT." It was reported that Google had obtained ChatGPT's data from a website called ShareGPT.

The report also mentioned that former Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin had quit the company to join OpenAI. The ex-Google employee had apparently warned Google not to use ChatGPT's data since it would violate OpenAI's service terms. A source told The Information that Google had stopped using ChatGPT's data after the former employee's warnings.

Google has recently rolled out Bard for public testing. In an official blog post, the company announced that Bard would be available for testing to selected users in the US and UK. People who wish to use the chatbot must sign up for the waitlist and wait to get access.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai had warned his employees about Bard's possible mistakes in an email to employees, according to a CNBC report. Pichai wrote that "things will go wrong" as more people start to use Bard and test its capabilities.

In the same email, Pichai revealed that 80,000 Google employees had helped test Bard internally. He expressed his gratitude to the Bard team and the Googlers who had helped test the chatbot. Pichai also acknowledged the years of tech breakthroughs that had led to Bard's development, including Google's 2017 Transformer research and foundational models such as PalM and BERT.