The Bard AI chatbot's plans from Google were exposed.

According to a Bloomberg article, Google staff have continually lambasted the chatbot Bard, calling it a pathological liar and pleading with the company not to launch it. Although the bot was activated early in March, staff ignored a risk assessment and took notice of Bard's hazardous advise.

According to Bloomberg, Google has reportedly ignored moral considerations in an attempt to compete with rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI. Although the company has long faced criticism for putting profit ahead of ethics and safety in AI, it regularly brags about these accomplishments.

Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two researchers, were let go by the company in late 2020 and early 2021 when they published a study revealing weaknesses in the same artificial intelligence language systems that support chatbots such as Bard. However, Google now appears even more focused on money than safety, with these systems posing a threat to the company's search business model. "

The trusted internet-search giant is providing low-quality information in a race to keep up with the competition, while giving less priority to its ethical commitments," is how Bloomberg puts it, summarizing testimonies of current and former employees.

Some in Google and the AI community at large, however, wouldn't agree. One popular argument is that chatbots produce very little known harm and that public testing is required to build and secure these systems. Sure, they publish offensive content and false information, but so do a plethora of other online sources.

(To which others may say, yeah, but providing information to a user with all the authority of an AI system is not the same as sending them to a dubious source.) It is also possible that Google's competitors, Microsoft and OpenAI, are just as compromised as Google. They have less to lose and aren't industry leaders in the search field, which is the only distinction.

Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel told Bloomberg that the business continues to place a high premium on AI ethics. Gabriel stated, "We are still investing in the teams that work on implementing our AI Principles into our technology."

We tested Bard against Microsoft's Bing chatbot and OpenAI's ChatGPT, and each time we discovered that Google's approach was consistently less accurate and effective than the others.