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Arizona State Lawmaker Used ChatGPT To Write Part Of Law On Deepfakes

Christellee — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:08:51 +0000

AI was used to write part of a legislation, because an Arizona state representative deemed ChatGPT an expert.

Source: The Guardian

An Arizona state representative behind a new law that regulates deepfakes in elections used an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, to write part of the law – specifically, the part that defines what a deepfake is.

Republican Alexander Kolodin’s bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers and was signed by the Democratic governor recently, will allow candidates in Arizona or residents to ask a judge to declare whether a supposed deepfake is real or not, giving candidates a way to debunk AI-generated misinformation.

Kolodin said he used the chatbot ChatGPT to help define what “digital impersonation” is for the bill in part because it was a fun way to demonstrate the technology. He provided a screenshot of ChatGPT’s response to the question of what a deepfake is, which is similar to language that is included in the bill’s definition.

“I am by no means a computer scientist,” Kolodin said. “And so when I was trying to write the technical portion of it, in terms of what sort of technological processing makes something a deepfake, I was kind of struggling with the terminology. So I thought to myself, well, let me just ask the subject matter expert. And so I asked ChatGPT to write a definition of what was a deepfake.”

That portion of the bill “probably got fiddled with the least – people seemed to be pretty cool with that” throughout the legislative process. ChatGPT provided the “baseline definition” and then “I, the human, added in the protections for human rights, things like that it excludes comedy, satire, criticism, artistic expression, that kind of stuff,” Kolodin said.

Kolodin has used ChatGPT in other lawmaking a couple times, he said, to help write the first drafts of amendments and save time. “Why work harder when you can work smarter,” Kolodin replied on Twitter when an Arizona reporter tweeted about his use of ChatGPT in the bill.

The federal government has not yet regulated the use of AI in elections, though groups have been pressuring the Federal Election Commission to do so because the technology has moved much faster than the law, creating concerns it could disrupt elections this year. The agency has said it expects to share more on the issue this summer.

The Federal Communications Commission, meanwhile, will consider whether to require disclaimers on AI-generated content on political ads running on radio and TV, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The FCC previously made clear that AI-generated voices in robocalls, like an instance in which President Joe Biden’s voice was spoofed to New Hampshire voters, are illegal.

In the absence of federal regulations, many states have advanced bills to regulate deepfakes. It’s typically an area of rare bipartisan agreement.

Some bills have outlawed the use of deepfakes in political contexts in some instances, while others require disclosures that note whether the content is AI-generated. Kolodin’s bill takes a different approach to concern over deepfakes in elections than that of many other states considering how to regulate the technology.

Rather than outlaw or curb usage, Kolodin wanted to give people a mechanism to have the courts weigh in on the truthfulness of a deepfake. Having it taken down would be both futile and a first amendment issue, he said.

“Now at least their campaign has as a declaration from a court saying, this doesn’t look like it’s you, and they could use that for counternarrative messaging,” he said.

The bill does allow for a deepfake to be ordered removed, and the person could seek damages, if it depicts someone in a sexual act or nude, if the person in the deepfake is not a public figure and if the publisher knew it was false and refused to remove it. The Arizona bill also takes a different approach on disclaimers.

Rather than outright requiring them, as some state laws have, it says that a person bringing a potential court action wouldn’t have a case if the publisher of the digital impersonation had conveyed that the image or video was a deepfake or that its authenticity was in dispute, or whether it would be obvious to a reasonable person that it was a deepfake.

Kolodin said disclaimers carry speech concerns for him, too, because they cut into airtime or, in some cases, ruin the joke or the point of a message. He cited a recent instance where the Arizona Agenda, a local publication covering state politics, created a deepfake of the US Senate candidate Kari Lake, where it was obvious to a viewer that the video wasn’t real based on what Lake was saying. (Full disclosure: the reporter of this story was the co-founder of the Arizona Agenda, but is no longer involved.)

“Any reasonable person would have realised that [it was fake], but if you had a label on it, it would have ruined the joke, right?” Kolodin said. “It would have ruined the journalistic impact. And so I think a prescribed label is further than I wanted to go.”

In one instance in Georgia, a state representative trying to convince fellow lawmakers to approve a bill outlawing deepfakes in elections used an AI-generated image and audio of two people who opposed the bill, faking their voices to say they endorsed it.

Kolodin hopes his bill will become a model for other states because he has worried that well-intentioned efforts to regulate AI in elections could trample on speech rights.

“I think deepfakes have a legitimate role to play in our political discourse,” he said. “And when you have politicians regulating speech, you kind of have the fox guarding the hen house, so they’re gonna say, oh, anything that makes me look silly is a crime. I absolutely hope that other state legislators pick this up.”

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Nvidia Finds Itself Amongst Defendants Accused Of Copyright Infringements

Christellee — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:31:51 +0000

Nvidia has found itself joining the group of enterprises taken to court, like OpenAI, Microsoft, Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, making lawsuits over copyright infringements more common.

The world raved about AI last year, even Jensen Huang from Nvidia famously praised the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He went as far as to say anyone can be a programmer with AI softwares. This was during the period where ChatGPT got into trouble in various shapes and forms— from data security breach to fabricated content by a high ranking editor.

Now, the chip titan finds itself joining the group of defendants accused of copyright infringements via OpenAI. Three authors reportedly took Nvidia to court over using their copyrighted material without permission to train its NeMo AI platform.

Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language, before being taken down in October “due to reported copyright infringement.“ In a proposed class action filed in San Francisco federal court, the authors said the takedown reflects Nvidia’s having “admitted” it trained NeMo on the dataset, and thereby infringed their copyrights.

They are seeking unspecified damages for people in the United States whose copyrighted works helped train NeMo’s so-called large language models in the last three years. Among the works covered by the lawsuit are Keene’s 2008 novel “Ghost Walk,” Nazemian’s 2019 novel “Like a Love Story,” and O’Nan’s 2007 novella “Last Night at the Lobster.”

The lawsuit drags Nvidia into a growing body of litigation by writers, as well as the New York Times, over generative AI, which creates new content based on inputs such as text, images and sounds. Nvidia touts NeMo as a fast and affordable way to adopt generative AI.

Other companies sued over the technology have included OpenAI, which created the AI platform ChatGPT, and its partner Microsoft. AI’s rise has made Nvidia a favourite of investors. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker’s stock price has risen almost 600% since the end of 2022, giving Nvidia a market value of nearly US$2.2 trillion.

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Baidu’s ChatGPT-Like Ernie Bot Leads The Pack In China

Christellee — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 09:49:52 +0000

Baidu’s ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has reportedly garnered more than 100 million users, Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer of the Chinese internet company said.

Source: Reuters

The user base milestone, announced at a deep learning summit in Beijing, comes after the search engine giant opened Ernie Bot to the public in August. This was preceded by a partial unveiling and more than five-month trial period where select users could test the chatbot’s capabilities.

Analysts said that while the partial unveiling in March was underwhelming, it still gave the company a valuable first-mover advantage in a market that has since become crowded with dozens of players, as Chinese tech companies, large and small, look to develop their own chatbots powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI).

This followed the launch in late 2022 of U.S. research organisation Open AI’s ChatGPT, which became the fastest-growing software application in the world within six months. Since then, investors have valued OpenAI at more than $80 billion. While OpenAI’s parent is a nonprofit, Microsoft has invested $13 billion in a for-profit subsidiary, for what would be a 49% stake.

OpenAI was embroiled in numerous sagas and even litigation from sources claiming their works were used without permission — copyright infringements. This could have dented the credibility of Microsoft and OpenAI if users’ data are quietly mined for distribution, strategically positioning Ernie Bot as the dominant chatbot for information.

Baidu CEO Robin Li has this year repeatedly touted the potential for Ernie Bot and related products to help the company gain market share in its mainstream businesses, including search engine, cloud, and smart cars. According to a ranking published by SuperCLUE, which ranks generative AI-powered chatbots, Ernie Bot leads all Chinese chatbots but its score of 79.02 is more than 10 points lower than the latest version of ChatGPT.

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OpenAI Slaughters Its Golden Goose — Sam Altman

Christellee — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:31:52 +0000

From intellectual property theft to a parody of Steve Jobs’ experience — being driven out by the company he founded, Sam Altman’s case is making the world hold its breath for what is next for OpenAI, if not Microsoft.

The earth shook when headlines of Altman’s ousting hit the press. Till today, no further information is disclosed on the big “WHY?”. Their communications teams threaded carefully by claiming the board lost confidence in Altman’s management practices; not receiving the transparency it rightfully deserved.

If we look back, OpenAI thrusted several industries into controversy this year alone. From media reporting to chip coding, the chatbot was deemed as something that could either make or break industries by creating a new generation of jobs or eliminating them altogether. Altman is said to be pursuing a new concept, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and reportedly hinted on the idea of machines performing tasks better than humans.

When news broke that Altman was shown the door, hordes of staff threatened mass resignation unless the board took him back. One of the petition signatures belonged to Ilya Sutskever, another Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. He also happens to be one of the primary brains behind the large language model GPT-4.

Ilya Sutskever, another Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI

Sutskever had a hand in Altman’s ousting. Now, he joins the petition to have Altman reinstated, expressing full remorse of his prior actions that caused Altman’s exit.

As fate would have it, when over 90% signed the letter demanding his reinstating or they will leave, Microsoft stepped in to hire Altman, along with offering his supporters jobs should they be keen. This is a golden opportunity for Microsoft to strengthen its own AI chatbot after witnessing the the exponential success of OpenAI.

Many conglomerates have gone on the path of creating their own AI chatbots but it was not without suffering from serious blunders. For the metalworking world, even Nvidia’s leader acknowledged the power of AI that he conceded coding can be done by just about anyone who knows programming language.

At the end of it all, many still hold onto the mentality that AI is the technology that will redefine how work is done across several industries. However, giving credit where it is due — considering Microsoft invited Altman onboard after OpenAI’s dumping, the latter totally missed the point they have killed their golden goose.

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OpenAI Sued For Copyright Infringement

Christellee — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:54:58 +0000

ChatGPT is in trouble. OpenAI is getting sued in the US for illegally using content from the internet to train their LLM or large language models. It got called out for unauthorised data mining to augment its information database.

As reported by First Post, a class action lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, claiming that the company’s AI training methods violated the privacy and copyright of practically everyone who has ever shared content online. OpenAI gathered an enormous amount of data from various sources on the internet to train its advanced AI language models.

These datasets consist of a wide range of materials, such as Wikipedia articles, popular books, social media posts, and even explicit content of niche genres. More importantly, OpenAI acquired all this data without seeking permission from the content creators. If this refreshes anyone’s memory, it would be Samsung’s coding for their semiconductor division, as well as other confidential data.

What The Trouble Entails

The class action lawsuit, filed in California, argues that OpenAI’s failure to adhere to proper protocols, including obtaining consent from content creators, amounts to outright data theft.

The lawsuit filing stated, “Instead of following established procedures for the acquisition and usage of personal information, the Defendants resorted to theft. They systematically scraped 300 billion words from the internet, including ‘books, articles, websites, and posts,’ which also included personal information obtained without consent.”

How OpenAI Nicks Your Ideas And Work

It is a valid argument that if you have been active online in recent decades, your digital contributions are likely incorporated into OpenAI’s datasets. Consequently, any output generated by OpenAI’s language models, which is used for profit, may contain fragments of your data obtained through silent scraping.

Ryan Clarkson, Managing Partner at the law firm suing OpenAI, explained to The Washington Post that “all of that information is being taken at scale” without it being originally intended for utilisation by a large language model.

Is the Lawsuit Really A Concern For OpenAI?

The outcome of the case in court remains uncertain. The internet’s infrastructure is complex, and the notion of a free and open web is often not entirely accurate. Online platforms have their own terms and agreements with users, and even if users contribute content to these platforms, the ownership typically belongs to the platform itself rather than the users.

Katherine Gardner, an intellectual-property lawyer, noted that when users upload content to social media or any other site, they usually grant the platform a broad license to use their content in various ways. As a result, it would be challenging for ordinary users to claim entitlement to payment or compensation for the use of their data in training models.

While it is a subject of ethics for OpenAI, such casts doubts on any organisation’s integrity and expertise. Using a chatbot to improve one’s work is not wrong. However, when the output turns out to be generated by data mining from other reliable sources, one cannot argue against the principle of data theft — albeit another platform did the deed on one’s behalf.

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AI Ego Trip For One, Deprecation For Another?

Christellee — Mon, 22 May 2023 04:10:37 +0000

OpenAI’s ChatGPT appears to be gradually revealing its drawbacks — cementing the belief its intelligence remains inferior to that of humans. It proved the point ironically for AI advocate, Japan’s Digital Transformation Minister Kono Taro.

In a famous revelation, he revealed to Bloomberg: “I asked ChatGPT who Kono Taro is and he came back with the wrong answer. So you need to be careful.” Apparently the AI powered chatbot identified him as Prime Minister for Japan.

As the world holds its giggles for a blunder involving political figures, it corroborates the downside of Google — inaccuracies. Minister Kono is known for his support towards using AI to address labour shortages and work efficiency.

Unfortunately, for tremendous support towards a cause, his position had to be mixed up with someone more significant. To date, no comment was issued by OpenAI for this new blunder.

Minister Kono was reportedly speaking as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida established a panel to look into the economic potential and risks of AI, seeking to take a lead on the regulation of the technology as this year’s chair of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies. The group’s digital ministers agreed on an action plan for promoting “trustworthy AI,” and the European Union took a step toward more regulation of AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.

But yes, lack of regulations on AI can be detrimental to many industries in terms of data security and intellectual property rights. While many support the power of AI, there are boundaries that cannot be crossed.

Kono said robots do not threaten Japan’s workforce due to its declining population but the country is keen on trying new AI technologies. He added the government was discussing data set creation with Microsoft Corp. and other providers of the technology.

“The minority language data set compared to English is not big, so it could be skewed,” Minister Kono remarked.

Kono, who was appointed to his post last year, has long battled to do away with cumbersome government paperwork and the use of older technologies, like fax machines and floppy disks. He is seeking to pass a bill as soon as this month that would remove such requirements from more than 10,000 laws and regulations after a search through paperwork stretching back for decades, he said.

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A.I. Powered Chatbot Explodes Globally Despite Massive Controversies

Christellee — Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:37 +0000

Data security did not seem to worry any tech players in China — not even when ChatGPT is controversial for its data mining. In fact, Google’s Bard’s (chatbot) is now capable of writing software codes, which will greatly impact CNC programming in metalworking.

The French are on tenterhooks over cyber security that it is investigating complaints brought against ChatGPT. Fake news are now creeping into the information super highway through various chat bots. From a fabricated celebrity interview to locomotive accidents, it seems the world has gotten into the habit of relying upon Google albeit on a quicker pace for insights and solutions.

Italy was the first country to stop ChatGPT for data protection. Reuters reported the chatbot was reactivated in Italy after its maker OpenAI addressed issues raised by Italy’s data protection authority, the agency and the company confirmed.

The company assured it will provide greater visibility of its privacy policy and user content opt-out form. It will also provide a new form for European Union users to exercise their right to object to its use of personal data to train its models.

The form requires people who want to opt out to provide detailed personal information, including evidence of data processing via relevant prompts. Garante said it recognises the steps taken to combine technological progress with respect to people’s rights and hopes that the company will continue along this path of compliance with European data protection regulations.

Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy in March 2023 after the country’s data protection authority, also known as Garante, temporarily banned the chatbot and launched a probe over the artificial intelligence application’s suspected breach of privacy rules.

France’s privacy watchdog CNIL was investigating several complaints about ChatGPT after the chatbox was temporarily banned in Italy over a suspected breach of privacy rules.

“The CNIL has received several complaints about ChatGPT and is investigating them,” the watchdog said by email in response to a Reuters query.

Google’s Bard May Include G Code

Alphabet Inc’s Google said it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to help people write code to develop software, as the tech giant plays catch-up in a fast-moving race on AI technology. The company started the public release of Bard to gain ground on Microsoft Corporation.

The release of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, last year caused a sprint in the technology sector to put AI into more users’ hands. Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content.

Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google disclosed. That brings alarm bells or humongous red flags to the CNC sector.

Image credit – Mojahid Mottakin

G-code (also known as RS-274) is the name of the most prevalent programming language for computer numerical control (CNC) in computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM). G-code provides metric-based numeric control of CAM-controlled equipment such as CNC milling machines

The company said Bard can also optimize code to make it faster or more efficient with simple prompts such as “Could you make that code faster?”. Currently, Bard can be accessed by a small set of users who can chat with the bot and ask questions instead of running Google’s traditional search tool. However, would the market be assured of data protection given the codes are the lifeline of CNC.

Next Comes China

With all the global action surrounding chat bots, it would be uncanny for China to miss the fun. The global buzz around Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT has spread to China, shoring up stocks in artificial intelligence (AI) related firms and prompting a flurry of domestic companies to announce rival projects.

The only consolation is to date: reports have not mentioned anything about China players diving into software programming codes. Chinese AI firm iFlytek unveiled a large language model called “SparkDesk” and demonstrated it generating texts, solving math problems and critiquing a handwritten essay.

Alibaba Group showed off its AI large language model called Tongyi Qianwen, saying it would be integrated into all its apps in the near future. Tongyi Qianwen will initially be integrated into workplace messaging app DingTalk and voice assistant Tmall Genie.

Chinese AI firm SenseTime unveiled on 10 April 2023 a slew of new AI-powered products, including a chatbot and image generator based off its AI model SenseNova. The company did not detail plans for a product roll-out.

Huawei Technologies’s Pangu series of AI models have applications ranging from drug development to computer vision. Baidu Inc unveiled its much-anticipated AI-powered chatbot known as Ernie Bot. It is now available to a limited number of users who apply for access codes.

Reuters’ tests showed the chatbot has a good command of the Chinese language but avoids answering some political questions. Baidu plans to use Ernie Bot to revolutionise its search engine, by far the most dominant in China, as well as beef up efficiency in its cloud, smart cars and household appliances businesses.

Tencent Holdings set up a development team for a ChatGPT-like chatbot to be called “HunyuanAide”, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Tencent reiterated a statement in February 2023 that it is doing research on ChatGPT-tool technology.

China’s Fudan University launched a ChatGPT-like chatbot called MOSS in February 2023. However, the team apologised after a surge in traffic caused the platform to crash hours after its launch, saying it was a very immature model that had a long way to go before reaching the level of ChatGPT.

E-commerce company JD.Com planned to launch a product similar to ChatGPT, to be called ChatJD and aimed at serving other businesses. China Telecom Corp is developing an industrial version of ChatGPT for telecoms, which will use AI in some customer service functions, domestic media said on Feb. 18.

Gaming firm NetEase plans to deploy large language models technology to serve its education business. 360 Security Technology Inc said it possessed language model technology but could not give a clear indication of when it would launch related products.

Short video app Kuaishou Technology is doing research on large language models, aiming to improve its products, such as AI customer service, the government-backed the Paper revealed. Inspur Electronic Information Industry has long invested in AI-Generated Content technology, it said on its investor relations website.

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ChatGPT – A Weapon Of Market Consolidation?

Christellee — Mon, 15 May 2023 02:28:12 +0000

Ever since the ChatGPT became available, it became a tool for misuse everywhere. Where does that leave machinists who are genuinely well-versed and good in what they do?

There are plenty of A.I. powered chatbots in the market but ChatGPT being the most common has achieved notoriety for the wrong reasons. Call it collateral damage or otherwise, this tool has become so convenient that people have chosen to abuse it.

Recently, a man was arrested using ChatGPT to fabricate a train crash in China. The arrest reportedly took place in the northern province of Gansu, according to a WeChat posted police report.

Hong apparently used ChatGPT to create news stories about a train accident that left several people dead, and then posted the fake articles on Baijiahao, a blog-style creation platform created by Chinese internet giant Baidu. ChatGPT is illegal in China.

The specific crime Hong has been accused of however, is “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” punishable by up to five years in prison, according to Bloomberg. Prior to that, a Chief Editor got shown the door when her A.I. fabricated interview got discovered involving a world famous racer who never gave an interview after waking up from his coma.

The Microsoft-backed OpenAI launched last November has successfully cemented its spot in many industries. Other tech giants rushing to launch their own versions proved this pioneer chatbot is a force to be reckoned with.

The metalworking industry is showing signs of reliance on this ChatGPT especially in G coding, as it reduces time and effort to generate complex gcodes. Accuracy is touted to be guaranteed except it would not be wise to put all the bets on it given it is prone to errors as well.

Hence, if chatbots become a wonder-tool for just about every industry, even the most seasoned machinist would at some point worry about his future. There could potentially but industry consolidation — software players would become redundant and this could be disastrous for the whole sector.

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The Real Reason ChatGPT Is A Threat

Christellee — Fri, 12 May 2023 03:59:01 +0000

Ever since OpenAI got accessible, it became a staple for many professionals to find solutions if not alternatives to improve their work. As at 30 March 2023, ChatGPT reportedly registered over 100 million users, including that from metalworking industry.

A knee-jerk reaction followed with many wondering if the chatbot is going to replace jobs. A ray of sunshine pierced through when the truth of the chatbot bobbed up — it is still controlled by humans.

It is not uncommon to find plenty of jokes and memes online involving ChatGPT. One of them noted a student got busted after blindly copying everything the chatbot generated into her paper. However, nothing beats Samsung’s semiconductor division’s fiasco of leaking confidential coding data while using the chatbot to improve coding.

Google is a tool for many for research and information gathering, while the chatbot is just saving the steps of going through every entry for relevant data. Nonetheless, it is known that information off the internet can be inaccurate and even plagarised from other genuine sources.

However, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is smart enough to dish a disclaimer that its data collected was till September 2021 and unable to provide any beyond that date. There is the cutoff, and the chatbot remains active in mining global data quietly before releasing an enhanced version to generate revenue.

There are other chatbots in the market which are paid services and claim to be updated with the latest information. It is still anybody’s guess how much manpower is required to verify the data authenticity to warrant the subscription.

Back to the question, is the chatbot really a threat? It is when a human is incapable of improvising/improving/innovating enough and needs a software to get work done. It is also a threat towards those who are genuinely learned and knowledgeable — especially machining coding for our industry.

To be classed in the bottom league by others who seemingly “work smart” with chatbots is plain unacceptable. What if you realise work generated by a chatbot contains your unique signature, can you file for an infringement of copyright claim?

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Samsung Bans ChatGPT, AI Chatbots After Data Leak Blunder

Christellee — Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:20 +0000

Samsung has banned the use of ChatGPT after employees inadvertently revealed sensitive information to the chatbot.

Source: Mashable

According to Bloomberg, a memo to staffers announced the restriction of generative AI systems on company-owned devices and internal networks. Samsung employees had shared source code with ChatGPT to check for errors and used it to summarise meeting notes.

“While this interest focuses on the usefulness and efficiency of these platforms, there are also growing concerns about security risks presented by generative AI,” said the memo.

Information shared with ChatGPT is stored on OpenAI’s servers and can be used to improve the model unless users opt out. The Samsung ChatGPT leak underscored the risks of sharing personal and professional information with AI chatbots.

ChatGPT is touted as a productivity tool for accomplishing tasks quickly and efficiently. But that creates a privacy conundrum if workers are sharing confidential information; Samsung’s recent incident is the perfect illustration for confidential data leak.

Financial institutions like JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup have also banned or restricted ChatGPT for this reason. ChatGPT was temporarily banned in Italy until OpenAI implemented a clearer way to opt out of data sharing and age restrictions for users under 13 years old or under 18 with parental permission.

Recently, OpenAI also launched an “incognito mode” which allows users to disable their chat history. OpenAI also announced that it was working on a ChatGPT version for businesses which wouldn’t share chat data by default.

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