Apple Bans Use Of ChatGPT For Employees Amid Data Leak Concerns: Report

After Samsung, Apple has joined the rising listing of conglomerates which have requested their workers to cease utilizing generative AI-based chatbots—together with OpenAI’s ChatGPT—as a way to stop the leakage of confidential details about inside firm issues.

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has said that generative AI can’t be used for work functions. They have even prohibited using different AI-based platforms like Github Copilot, coincidentally owned by Microsoft—which permits customers to automate code writing.

By default, ChatGPT shops customers’ chats—that are later used to coach AI fashions or inspected by the corporate to make sure compliance with insurance policies. However, OpenAI has just lately enabled customers to disable chat historical past, though it nonetheless retains information from the final 30 days earlier than deletion.

Similar to different corporations, Apple could have considerations about workers utilizing generative AI for day by day duties, reminiscent of code writing, as a result of superior capabilities of chatbots like ChatGPT. In such situations, there’s a danger of unintended leaks of inside firm info to the skin world. Consequently, it’s seemingly that Apple is imposing restrictions on using generative AI for its workers because of this.

In associated news, earlier this month, Samsung reportedly carried out a ban on using generative AI—together with ChatGPT, on workplace units reminiscent of computer systems, tablets, and telephones. This ban additionally extends to non-public units linked to inside firm networks, as said by Bloomberg. However, in Samsung’s case, inside information had already been leaked to ChatGPT.