> ...there's an impulse to consult Bard on its origin precisely because of the lack of transparency from the real authority on the issue: Google. That we're tempted to probe the language model for substantive answers on matters of public interest merely underlines Google's failure to communicate them on their own.

> LLMs are incredibly powerful tools that could transform our lives for the better. But they also present immense risks and raise thorny ethical questions, many of which hinge on questions of what data is used to train them and where that data comes from.

Article's claim is that they're inhibiting it via their lack of transparency on training data