Googlers are speaking all in regards to the firm’s announcement of its ChatGPT rival, Bard — and plenty of aren’t pleased with how issues went. In accordance with a report from CNBC, Google workers are calling the launch of the AI chatbot “rushed” and “botched” in posts throughout the corporate’s inside message boards, with many concentrating on CEO Sundar Pichai.

“Pricey Sundar, the Bard launch and the layoffs have been rushed, botched, and myopic,” one person wrote a closely upvoted submit seen by CNBC, which refers to final month’s job cuts that eradicated 12,000 employees. Different Googlers reportedly posted memes evaluating the previous yr at Google to a dumpster fireplace, whereas one other worker mentioned “pushing Bard to market in a panic validated the market’s worry about us.” Google’s inventory took a fairly large blow after information about Bard’s error began going round, dropping almost $100 billion of its market worth in simply in the future.

Google’s ChatGPT competitor received’t see wider availability for weeks, however with Microsoft planning to upend net search with a bot that may present annotated solutions to varied sorts of queries, it’s no marvel that Google — which is arguably the king of search — determined to point out off Bard now, even when it was a tad sooner than anticipated.