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Samsung Workers Made a Major Error by Using ChatGPT
Samsung Electronics sent out a warning to its workers on the potential dangers of leaking confidential information in the wake of the incidents.
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Samsung workers have unwittingly leaked top secret data whilst using ChatGPT to help them with tasks.
The company allowed engineers at its semiconductor arm to use the AI writer to help fix problems with their source code. But in doing so, the workers inputted confidential data, such as the source code itself for a new program, internal meeting notes data relating to their hardware.
The upshot is that in just under a month, there were three recorded incidences of employees leaking sensitive information via ChatGPT. Since ChatGPT retains user input data to further train itself, these trade secrets from Samsung are now effectively in the hands of OpenAI, the company behind the AI service.
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