evidence: Google Goes After Scammers Abusing Its Bard AI Chatbot [...] Google is flexing its legal heft with two lawsuits aimed at shutting down abuse of Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to run cyber scams. [...] "The fraudsters created social media pages and ran ads that encouraged people to 'download' Bard, our freely available generative AI tool that does not need to be downloaded," Google general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado explained in a Nov. 13 blog post about the legal actions. Instead, victims were served up malware to compromise their social media accounts, the post added.