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Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?

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Re: Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?

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Post by radarsat1 »

pyrale wrote: post #67
radarsat1 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Did you send an email to Fred?" -- "No, I'm not sending an email to Fred" To me this unambiguously says both that I did not send an email to him and I don't intend to. Is it really ambiguous to you?

If you said that, maybe. If a corporate PR expert or a politician said that, the conclusion would be very different.

I'll be honest I'm a bit surprised at the responses here. I get what you're saying about the verb tenses, but the first word in the answer is clearly "No" in answer to the question.

Re: Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?

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Post by salawat »

Terretta wrote: post #57
skinkestek wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the moment, for some reason Google seems almost untouchable. I mean, single handedly destroying the browser market by deceit and abuse of market position in broad daylight, you'd think sooner or later EU or someone would force them to pay and put up a browser ballot on Google.com, but so far, no. Luckily the French consumer protection agency has at least forced them to implement the cookie question thing almost so…

> single handedly destroying the browser market by deceit and abuse of market position in broad daylight It's not single handedly, it's every developer handedly. First thing any dev does is install Chrome, and make their normal friends install Chrome, even when -- for example -- it destroys the battery life on their Macbook while breaking a variety of usability conveniences. When pressed, it turns out most of this is…

Citation required. I've been warning my circles off Chrome for years. Firefox is generally my go to.

Re: Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?

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Post by q1w2 »

bilekas wrote: post #24
delroth wrote: post #8

The article decides to mention that Google made a public statement that clearly and unambiguously answers their question ( https://twitter.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/16382985371956019... ) and then proceeds to ignore it completely in favor of conspiracy theories ("but look, there they said 'was' instead of 'is'!").

They also have added replies which have been removed, reading the article it's actually not as conspiratorial as you make it seem. In this case I really think it prudent to assume the worst from Google as they don't really have a positive history for walling off users data, be it personal email or phone meta information. > "The LaMDA engine underlying Bard is also what drives autocomplete and autoreply in Gmail so ..…

> I really think it prudent to assume the worst...

This is not evidence-based thinking and leads to heavy biases.

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