295
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Google is coming under scrutiny after people discovered transcripts of conversations with its AI chatbot are being indexed in search results.

You can replicate what others are seeing by typing ‘site:bard.google.com/share‘ into the Google Search bar.

I tried this out for myself, and as one example found a writer brainstorming story ideas and using her full name. It seems that when you hit "export/share" on Bard, while you might think only people with access to the link that's created can view the conversation, in fact Google makes the conversation public and searchable. This is far more problematic than the vague privacy threat of your prompts being used to train the models and later being spit back to some random person in a reply. This lets you read full conversations. AI in general has a privacy problem, but this is a good reason not to use Bard in particular (if it sucking wasn't enough reason for you)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I really tried my best with DDG, but I absolutely hated it. I’m back on Google search until I can find something better

[-] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Self host SearxNG or find a cheap provider for it and never look back

[-] Linssiili@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Give kagi a shot, it's paid service, but they have a 100 search trial

this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
295 points (99.0% liked)

Technology

59080 readers
3487 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS