In the 12hrs since Bard told me it was trained on Gmail data:
-Google replies (says it's not)
-Elon Musk replies (lol)
-Google adds a 'community note' that this is a Bard error and it's not trained on Gmail
-Some ace memes
What should happen next: Real talk about training data
ETHICS
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Bard’s False Gmail Training Claim Sparks Public Debate
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Lack of Transparency in AI Model Training Data
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There is a real problem here. Scientists and researchers like me have no way to know what Bard, GPT4, or Sydney are trained on. Companies refuse to say. This matters, because training data is part of the core foundation on which models are built. Science relies on transparency.
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Anthropomorphizing GPT-4: Do You Gender AI Models?
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Les gens anthropomorphisent beaucoup #ChatGPT Moi je parle de #GPT4 au masculin et je dis il et lui Et vous, vous le traitez comme un garçon ou comme une fille ?
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Digital Empathy Crisis: Fragmented Online Worldviews and Shared Understanding
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My main observation is we (online) no longer seem to have a shared sense of what empathy/respect means, or even a common interpretation of expressed human emotions. Also apparently the white American worldview is now The View.
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ChatGPT and the Promethean Moment of Generative AI
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Our new Promethean moment may have arrived – is #ChatGPT ready to steal the fire of knowledge? "We better figure this out fast because, Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore." – @tomfriedman #GenerativeAI #AI http://
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Google’s Bard Error Claims Face Credibility Questions
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To be clear, I'm taking their claim at face value for now. But I find it funny that the only way to emphasize that it isn't trained on Gmail data, is to state that it can make mistakes. A lose-lose situation, esp given the history https://
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Google’s Deleted Reply to Kate Crawford
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If you’re curious, this was Google’s reply that they deleted:
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Google Confirms No Private Data Used in Training
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So Google has responded to say that no private data was used in training. Good to have this confirmed on the record. (Maybe it’s Barb to its friends) https://
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Confirming Bard Hallucination and Gmail Training Data Clarification
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Thanks for this. So can I confirm that this was a Bard hallucination, and that there's no Gmail data included whatsoever in the training process?
