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Google\u2019s Bard hasn\u2019t<\/a> exactly<\/a> had an impressive debut \u2014 and The Information <\/em>is reporting<\/a> that the company is so interested in changing the fortunes of its AI chatbots, it\u2019s forcing its DeepMind division to help the Google Brain team beat OpenAI with a new initiative called Gemini. The Information<\/em>\u2019s report also contains the potentially staggering thirdhand allegation that Google stooped so low as to train Bard using data from OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, scraped from a website called ShareGPT. A former Google AI researcher reportedly spoke out against using that data, according to the publication. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Google is firmly and clearly denying the data was used: \u201cBard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT,\u201d spokesperson Chris Pappas tells The Verge<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to The Information<\/em>\u2019s reporting, a Google AI engineer named Jacob Devlin left Google to immediately join its rival OpenAI after attempting to warn Google not to use that ChatGPT data because it would violate OpenAI\u2019s terms of service, and that its answers would look too similar. One source told the publication that Google stopped using that data after his warnings. Perhaps it threw out that portion of the training, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n