Google advised employees to refrain from using chatbots, including Bard

Alphabet has issued a directive to its employees regarding the use of chatbots. The tech giant called

them to be extremely careful, including with Bard’s own development.

What is known

Google's parent company advisedemployees not to enter sensitive data into chatbots with artificial intelligence. The holding's management fears that platform developers can read correspondence and get hold of secret information.

Also, language models are additionally trained on user chats. This creates another risk of leaks.

In addition, Alphabet asked engineers to avoid directly using computer code generated by chatbots.

The company confirmed the existence of such recommendations. According to an Alphabet spokesperson, this is a long-standing corporate information protection policy.