Google said to temper chatbot use for employees on privacy concerns
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is reportedly asking its own employees to curb their use of generative AI chatbots even as it continues to further promote Bard, its competitor to the wildly popular ChatGPT.
The tech giant has asked its own employees to not enter confidential information into the chatbots, Reuters reported, citing four people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL), the parent company of Google, has also asked engineers to not use compute code that is generated by the chatbots, the news outlet added.
Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL) shares slipped around 1% in pre-market trading on Thursday.
Mountain View, California-based Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.
A number of companies have tempered the use of chatbots for their employees on fears of confidential information being leaked, including Apple (AAPL), which curbed the use for its employees earlier this year.
In April, it was reported that generative artificial intelligence systems may be investigated over consumer protection concerns.
OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot, temporarily disabled the history feature on the service in March after some users reported seeing other usersâ conversations.
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