Google’s own “Bard” AI chatbot says the US Justice Department has a winning case in the landmark antitrust trial against the search giant – and blasted the company for wielding illegal “monopoly power” that has “harmed consumers,” according to a Post analysis.
The Post quizzed Bard – a so-called “large language model” trained on endless reams of internet data – on more than 700 words taken directly from the Sept. 12 opening statement in which DOJ attorney Kenneth Dintzer detailed the government’s case for why Google’s search juggernaut should be broken up.
When asked if it agreed or disagreed with the DOJ’s arguments, Bard sided with the feds – declaring that US prosecutors’ evidence made it clear Google has “illegally used its monopoly power to maintain its dominance in the online search market.”
Bard – which lately has raised eyebrows by falsely claiming that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire and botching a description of the James Webb Space Telescope in a company ad – responded to a query last week saying Google’s “lack of innovation has led to lower quality search results for users.”
“I believe that the Justice Department should prevail in this case,” Bard said.