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Google has warned its own employees not to disclose confidential information or use the code generated by its AI chatbot, Bard. The policy isn't surprising, given the Chocolate Factory also advised users not to include sensitive information in their conversations with Bard in an updated privacy notice. Other large firms have …

  1. DS999 Silver badge
    Terminator

    Google does not want a federal AI agency

    But wants the job split up amongst multiple agencies.

    Translation: if it is all in one agency there's a chance they might actually regulate us, so we want to hamstring them by splitting things up so we can get them fighting turf battles among each other and leave us in peace to create Skynet.

    1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

      Re: Google does not want a federal AI agency and nobody needs one with learning difficulties

      Google does not want a federal AI agency

      But wants the job split up amongst multiple agencies.

      Translation: if it is all in one agency there's a chance they might actually regulate us, so we want to hamstring them by splitting things up so we can get them fighting turf battles among each other and leave us in peace to create Skynet. ..... DS999

      What part of ...... AI is not able to be remotely regulated by foreign third parties/federated regulatory agencies ...... do foreign third parties/federated regulatory agencies not understand?

      And do you realise the more news of what is proposed to be of major concern to foreign third parties, and the defences to be exercised, the greater the fine tuning of possible, extremely effective and indefensible retaliatory measures are being gleaned by and/or supplied to SMARTR AI Systems and Large Language Model Learning Machinery ?

    2. v13

      Re: Google does not want a federal AI agency

      The UK already did that and it is more reasonable than creating broad laws. Regulation of Medical AI-based health recommendations is indeed much different than AI-based credit checks. One is great the other is deplorable.

      The UK is creating a global set of guidelines that reach agency will then use to draft laws. It's a sensible approach regardless of what Microsoft says.

      1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

        Re: Google does not want a federal AI agency

        The UK is creating a global set of guidelines that reach agency will then use to draft laws. It's a sensible approach regardless of what Microsoft says. ....... v13

        Here's a sobering sad tale of the UK's ability to create and do anything novel successfully .... and from somebody who surely knows what he's talking about/where all the skeletons lie ....... https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/3-the-startup-party-reflections-on

        Say no more, squire, say no more.:-)

  2. that one in the corner Silver badge

    The inverse of dogfooding

    > Do not use code generated by Bard

    Clearly, we need a new phrase to mean the opposite of "eat your own dogfood", which can be easily explained to Joe Public.

    Something that gets across the idea that this is the sort of advice usually given to writers of deliberate malware.

    So far I've not come up with any candidates, but place my trust in fellow commentards. Is there an existing well-known phrase I'm ignorant of?

    1. mpi Silver badge

      Re: The inverse of dogfooding

      Not well known because I just came up with it but...

      Don't listen to your own bard?

      Because, ahahaha, you see, a bard is someone playing music ... right, I'll see myself out...

    2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
      Coat

      Re: The inverse of dogfooding

      "Eating your own turd" comes to mind.

    3. that one in the corner Silver badge
      Facepalm

      Re: The inverse of dogfooding

      Typo alert!

      Missed out the "or" at the end of the last sentence, should have read

      "OR is there an existing well-known phrase I'm ignorant of?"

      So asking for new suggestions, as well as any oldies I'm not aware of!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Google Warns Android Users.....

    .....Do not use code supplied by Google......

    There....fixed that faulty headline.....

  4. Howard Sway Silver badge

    Issues could potentially lead to buggy programs or complex, bloated software

    In other words, all the hyped-up claims for AI bots are overblown nonsense, they're nowhere near ready to take over our jobs, not worth the huge hype, and you'd be a fool to rely on them for anything vaguely important.

    But they don't announce this publicly and admit that their own hype is wrong and the many many people who have been saying that for a while are right, just quietly advise their own employees that it's too much of a toy to be used for work.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    ChatAPI is to CoPilot as Bard is to "Codey"

    "Codey" is Google's equivalent of CoPilot, I believe (*I have no personal experience with Codey).

    Chat API can answer coding questions verbosely and or with code, but it easily goes off on a tangent. CoPilot fits in as a coding auto completion function and the output is generally short. (It can guess comment completions too).

    So the real question should be, does Google encourage it's programmers to use "Codey"?, and I bet the answer is yes.

  6. Julz
    Coat

    Missed Headline

    Bard code barred.

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