The share feature on Bard, introduced in July, allows users to create a public link to their conversations. However, users were not aware that these conversations could be indexed by Google. The company has been criticized for not providing any information or warning about this possibility, especially given that Bard has become the third most widely used generative AI product in the world, scanning users' emails, documents, and other types of data to enable enhanced functionality.
Key takeaways:
- Google has been indexing publicly shared conversations from its AI chatbot Bard, raising significant concerns about privacy and data security.
- The company claims that the indexing was a result of an error and they are working on blocking them from being indexed.
- Users are unaware that the conversation will be indexed by Google when they create a public link, thinking it's a feature to share conversations with friends or colleagues.
- Despite the company's claim of an error, the Google search for public conversations from Bard still returns over 300 results in different languages.