Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Photographer: Sam Hall/BloombergGoogle’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say
The search giant is making compromises on misinformation and other harms in order to catch up with ChatGPT, workers say
Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool.
One worker’s conclusion: Bard was “a pathological liar,” according to screenshots of the internal discussion. Another called it “cringe-worthy.” One employee wrote that when they asked Bard suggestions for how to land a plane, it regularly gave advice that would lead to a crash; another said it gave answers on scuba diving “which would likely result in serious injury or death.”