{"id":1246640,"date":"2023-06-20T06:15:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/?p=1246640"},"modified":"2023-06-20T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:46:13","slug":"google-warns-employees-about-using-ai-chatbots-cautions-them-regarding-data-safety-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/google-warns-employees-about-using-ai-chatbots-cautions-them-regarding-data-safety-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Warns Employees About Using AI Chatbots; Cautions Them Regarding Data Safety, Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google, which itself is one of AI\u2019s biggest backers, is warning its own employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Untitled-design-20-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Google Warns Employees About Using AI Chatbots; Cautions Them Regarding Data Safety, Privacy\" class=\"wp-image-1246735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Untitled-design-20-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Untitled-design-20-1-300x140.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Untitled-design-20-1-768x357.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amid wide rollout<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Google privacy notice updated on June 1 states: &#8220;Don\u2019t include confidential or sensitive information in your Bard conversations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes simultaneously as the company markets the program around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google is rolling out Bard to more than 180 countries and in 40 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discovery of risks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chatbots, among them Bard and ChatGPT are programs resembling human language which use generative artificial intelligence to hold conversations with users and answer prompts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers have found that similar AI could reproduce the data it absorbed during training, creating a leak risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Warnings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google parent Alphabet has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots, citing long-standing policy on safeguarding information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also cautioned its engineers to avoid direct use of computer code that chatbots can generate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Avoid losing revenue from business harm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google said it aimed to be transparent about the limitations of its technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its motive behind disclosing such risks is to avoid business harm from software it launched in competition with ChatGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At stake in the race are billions of dollars of investment along with yet untold advertising and cloud revenue from new AI programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Putting up resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its caution is also part of a security standard for corporations which includes warning personnel about using publicly-available chat programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A growing number of businesses around the world have set up guardrails on AI chatbots, among them Samsung, Amazon, and Deutsche Bank and reportedly Apple as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some companies have developed software to address such concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Software to address issues<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Cloudflare is developing a capability for businesses to tag and restrict some data from flowing externally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google and Microsoft themselves are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/google-one-ais-biggest-backers-warns-own-staff-about-chatbots-2023-06-15\/?utm_campaign=fullarticle&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=inshorts\">offering <\/a>costlier conversational tools to business customers which refrain from absorbing data into public AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, which itself is one of AI\u2019s biggest backers, is warning its own employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard. 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