What if Bard (Google) was trained on data from Gmail?

Posted By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab on 7 Apr, 2023

The scandal is potentially huge. Kate Crawford posted on Twitter (see screenshot below) a response by Bard, Google’s conversational agent using generative AI, to a seemingly innocuous question, “Where does Bard’s data come from?” Although Bard’s answer may be a hallucination, it is important to remember that Google has demonstrated its ability to disregard the most basic rules of privacy and personal data protection in the past. I would not be surprised if there were some truth in this...