Bard AI slammed by Google employees

Little is spared the once untouchable search giant Google, since ChatGPT took hundreds of millions of users by storm in a matter of months. The intended competitor for ChatGPT, Bard, is proving a fiasco, according to employees.

Bard ‘worse than useless’

Google employees don’t shy away from using strong pejorative terms to slam Bard. This is how the terms ‘cringeworthy’ and ‘worse than useless’ came to be. According to a leaked internal report, which gauged reactions within the company before the Ai was officially launched outside of Google. Terms that do not lie, and that give the impression that the atmosphere within the search giant is dire, according to a message from the American news site Bloomberg.

That’s not entirely illogical. There has been a hefty round of layoffs, probably also the reason why this report has become public.

Compromises on misinformation

Google is in a hurry to release Bard, as more and more Google users are now switching to Microsoft’s competing search site Bing. Google hopes to stop this process in time. Unfortunately, the largest search engine is not doing well. Because according to internal reports, the Ai was a “pathological liar,” in which Bard would not be unique. ChatGPT also has a knack for sometimes firing and defending wrong answers.

Bloomberg interviewed 18 current and former Google employees, who agreed. According to them, Google has thrown all precautions to the wind since the launch of ChatGPT and they did everything they could to demonstrate Bard AI to the general public as soon as possible. With this, Google clearly deviates from the famous ‘don’t do evil’ principle from the early years.

Cautious approach breaks up Google

Given the enormous risks associated with advanced AI, Google has always been very cautious and conservative. That now seems to be breaking up the company and all sails are now being used to catch up. Whether Google will succeed remains exciting. That caution has fostered a conservative corporate culture in which progress is much slower. The grapes are especially sour at Google, because ChatGPT is partly based on Google-based open source software.

On the other hand, Google employees are known to be extremely critical and ethically demanding.