{"id":172556,"date":"2023-09-22T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/googles-new-gmail-tool-is-hallucinating-emails-that-dont-exist"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:23:40","slug":"googles-new-gmail-tool-is-hallucinating-emails-that-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/googles-new-gmail-tool-is-hallucinating-emails-that-dont-exist","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-new-gmail-tool-is-hallucinating-emails-that-dont-exist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s new Bard extension will apparently summarize emails, plan your travels, and \u2014 oh, <em>yeah<\/em> \u2014 fabricate emails that you never actually sent.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Google plugged its large language model-powered chatbot called Bard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/19\/technology\/google-bard-ai-chatbot-youtube-gmail.html\" class=\"\">into a bevy of Google products<\/a> including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Maps, and the Google-owned YouTube, among other apps and services. While it\u2019s understandable that Google would want to marry its newer generative AI efforts with its already-established product lineup, it seems that Google might have moved a little too fast.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/20\/technology\/google-bard-extensions.html\" class=\"\"><em>New York Times<\/em> columnist<\/a> Kevin Roose, Bard isn\u2019t the helpful inbox assistant that Google apparently wants it to be \u2014 at least yet. In his testing, says Roose, the AI hallucinated entire email correspondences that never took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s new Bard extension will apparently summarize emails, plan your travels, and \u2014 oh, yeah \u2014 fabricate emails that you never actually sent. Last week, Google plugged its large language model-powered chatbot called Bard into a bevy of Google products including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Maps, and the Google-owned YouTube, among other apps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172556","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=172556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}