Currently, Microsoft and Google are in a head-to-head race to the top (or bottom, depending on who you ask) to create the next great tech industry: artificial intelligence.

For the first time in its history, Google is facing stiff competition for search engine dominance as Microsoft invested in OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, turning its once-defunct Bing search into the most fascinating thing since the internet first entered homes.

And Google knows it. So in the quest to catch up to and overtake Microsoft, they may be violating OpenAI’s ToS by “borrowing” data from ChatGPT to use for their own bot, “Bard.”

And one Google AI researcher has resigned as a result.

TheInformation reports that a “prominent” AI researcher at Google resigned after warning that Google’s Bard has been leveraging information from ChatGPT without permission. After leaving Google, Jacob Devlin then joined OpenAI.

But a lawsuit from OpenAI may be a hard sell, since AI bots are “borrowing” data from everywhere else to begin with.