{"id":158174,"date":"2023-02-16T02:24:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/google-employees-criticize-ceo-for-dumpster-fire-response-to-chatgpt"},"modified":"2023-02-16T02:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:24:36","slug":"google-employees-criticize-ceo-for-dumpster-fire-response-to-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/google-employees-criticize-ceo-for-dumpster-fire-response-to-chatgpt","title":{"rendered":"Google employees criticize CEO for \u201cdumpster fire\u201d response to ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-employees-criticize-ceo-for-dumpster-fire-response-to-chatgpt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Google\u2019s ChatGPT competitor event was announced for last week, we wrote that it seemed like a rush job designed to reassure investors, and since then, that event happened and went worse than anyone could have imagined. Google\u2019s event did the opposite of what it wanted, with the stock down nearly 12 percent since the recent high just before the event. Even Google employees are starting to take notice, with CNBC\u2019s Jennifer Elias writing that, internally, employees are criticizing CEO Sundar Pichai for what they call a \u2018rushed, botched\u2019 announcement of Google\u2019s new chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC says it was able to view several messages from Google\u2019s internal \u201cMemegen\u201d employee forum, and while these are normally lighthearted, the report says \u201cthe posts after the Bard announcement struck a more serious tone and even went directly after Pichai.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Google\u2019s ChatGPT competitor event was announced for last week, we wrote that it seemed like a rush job designed to reassure investors, and since then, that event happened and went worse than anyone could have imagined. Google\u2019s event did the opposite of what it wanted, with the stock down nearly 12 percent since the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}