Google disclosed that commercially motivated actors have tried to clone its Gemini chatbot by prompting it more than 100,000 times in multiple non‑English languages. The effort, described as “model extraction,” is framed as intellectual‑property theft. The company’s self‑assessment also references past controversy over using ChatGPT data to train Bard, a warning from former researcher Jacob Devlin, and the broader industry practice of “distillation,” where new models are built from the outputs of existing ones. Leia mais →