SEJ Today: Google Bard AI – What Sites Were Used To Train It?

Get the latest SEO, PPC, content marketing, and social media news delivered daily. [Read More]( [Read More]( [SEJTODAY]( Brought to you by: [Read More]( Friday, February 10, 2023 [Read the Article]( News, SEO [Google Bard AI – What Sites Were Used To Train It?]( By Roger Montti Google's Bard is based on the LaMDA language model, trained on datasets based on Internet content called Infiniset of which very little is known about where the data came from and how they got it. The 2022 LaMDA research paper lists percentages of different kinds of data used to train LaMDA, but only 12.5% comes from a public dataset of crawled content from the web and another 12.5% comes from Wikipedia. Google is purposely vague about where the rest of the scraped data comes from but there are hints of what sites are in those datasets. Google Bard is based on a language model called LaMDA, which is an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications. LaMDA was trained on a dataset called Infiniset. 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