Posted on 05/21/2023 3:18:21 AM PDT by george76
Apple is the latest company to ban employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT. OpenAI’s chatbot stores users’ conversations to train the company’s AI systems.
Apple has restricted employees from using AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT over fears confidential information entered into these systems will be leaked or collected.
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Apple employees have also been warned against using GitHub’s AI programming assistant Copilot.
Apple has good reason to be wary. By default, OpenAI stores all interactions between users and ChatGPT. These conversations are collected to train OpenAI’s systems and can be inspected by moderators for breaking the company’s terms and services.
In April, OpenAI launched a feature that lets users turn off chat history (coincidentally, not long after various EU nations began investigating the tool for potential privacy violations), but even with this setting enabled, OpenAI still retains conversations for 30 days with the option to review them “for abuse” before deleting them permanently.
Given the utility of ChatGPT for tasks like improving code and brainstorming ideas, Apple may be rightly worried its employees will enter information on confidential projects into the system. This information might then be seen by one of OpenAI’s moderators. Research shows it’s also possible to extract training data from some language models using its chat interface, though there’s no evidence that ChatGPT itself is vulnerable to such attacks.
Apple is far from the only company instituting such a ban. Others include JP Morgan, Verizon, and Amazon.
Apple’s ban, though, is notable given OpenAI launched an iOS app for ChatGPT this week. The app is free to use, supports voice input, and is available in the US. OpenAI says it will be launching the app in other countries soon, along with an Android version.
Everyone's got one. Have you been on vacation or sumpin?
Good luck with this move. The cats out of the bag and there is no going back.
Apple design dept: ChatGPT, design a cell phone with rounded corners..
ChatGPT: Samsung already did.
Apple: What do we do?
ChatGPT: Sue them.
Apple: Won’t that make us look ridiculous?
ChatGPT: Go ahead and do so anyhow.... : )
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