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Googles Bard hasnt exactly had an impressive debut and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested in changing the fortunes of its AI chatbots, its forcing its DeepMind division to help the Google Brain team beat OpenAI with a new initiative called Gemini. The Informations report also contains the potentially staggering thirdhand allegation that Google stooped so low as to train Bard using data from OpenAIs ChatGPT, scraped from a website called ShareGPT. A former Google AI researcher reportedly spoke out against using that data, according to the publication.

But Google is firmly and clearly denying the data is used: Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT, spokesperson Chris Pappas tells The Verge.

Pappas declined to answer whether Google had ever used ChatGPT data to train Bard in the past. Unfortunately, all I can share is our statement from yesterday, he says.

According to The Informations 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 OpenAIs 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.

Update March 30th, 2:02PM ET: Google would not answer a follow-up question about whether it had previously used ChatGPT data form Bard, only that Bard isnt trained on data from ChatGPT or ShareGPT.

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Google denies Bard was trained with ChatGPT data - The Verge