Samsung Bans Use of AI Like ChatGPT For Employees After Misuse of the Chatbot

Samsung told CNBC that it is temporarily restricting the use of generative AI for employees after the company discovered such services were being misused. From the report: Employees of one of Samsung's biggest divisions were informed of the move in a memo at the end of April after there had been cases of misuse of the technology. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that some staff had uploaded sensitive code to ChatGPT. Samsung does not have its own generative AI product yet. ChatGPT is developed by U.S. firm OpenAI which is backed by Microsoft while other generative AI products include Google's Bard. Inputting sensitive company data into these foreign-owned services could be a concern to companies worried about leaks of crucial information.

Samsung told employees to take precautions when using ChatGPT and other products outside of work and advised workers not to enter any personal or company related information into the services. [...] Despite the latest restrictions, Samsung is looking for ways in which generative AI could be used safely to enhance employee productivity and efficiency.

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[Tablizer]

All the experts coming out of the woodwork saying this will create mass chaos if not regulated got it half right: there is going to be mass chaos, but they are wrong on that it can be tamed by regulation. Crooks and despots already have it and won't delete it.

Crooks are already using bots to impersonate relatives in desperate need of money. I'm sure they are cooking up & tuning other mayhem.

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[test321]

Pandora's Box -- It's open,

They are fine with AI, what they complain about is some employees used particular competitor services ("ChatGPT") and leaked some corporate data. Samsung will probably have its own AI chatbot soon anyway, and Samsung employees will certainly be allowed to use it.

It's same as if Samsung chose to ban "gmail" or "dropbox" or "teamviewer" in their free-to-use version. It does not mean they ban the whole technology, just particular free-to-use services where all information you put there can and will be analysed

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[narcc]

It's not Pandora's box. It's not even someone sneezing on an airplane.

So Only Samsung Can Use It.

[zenlessyank]

Gotcha.

One if my coworkers

[wakeboarder]

Told me that ChatGPT now has feature that will tell the model not to remember your data

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[coofercat]

I'd imagine a lot of shops already have either banned or have been on a mission to "educate" users about ChatGPT. It's a compliance and security nightmare - and such a tempting service to use, right from "tidy up my code" to "write me a PR piece about how (the next) earnings announcement is good for the industry".

I suspect banning it is a bit much - but I guess if you check the logs and find everyone's "at it", then it might be the prudent move until you can put everyone on a training course (which you were