Apple bans employees from using ChatGPT over data leak
After Samsung, Apple has joined a growing number of groups asking their employees to stop using creative AI-powered chatbots — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT — to prevent the leak of confidential information about internal company matters.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has stated that generative artificial intelligence cannot be used for work purposes. They’ve even banned other AI-based platforms like Github Copilot, which happens to be owned by Microsoft, which allows users to automate writing code.
By default, ChatGPT records user conversations, which are later used to train AI models or audited by the company to ensure policy compliance. However, OpenAI has recently allowed users to disable chat history, although it still retains data from the last 30 days prior to deletion.
Like other companies, Apple may have concerns about employees using generative AI for day-to-day tasks like writing code due to the advanced capabilities of chatbots like ChatGPT. In such scenarios, there is a risk of internal company information being accidentally leaked to the outside world. For this reason, it is likely that Apple will impose restrictions on the use of generative AI by its employees for this reason.
In related news, Samsung announced earlier this month that it will ban the use of generative artificial intelligence, including ChatGPT, in office devices such as computers, tablets and phones. According to Bloomberg, this ban also applies to personal devices connected to the company’s internal networks. However, in Samsung’s case, internal information had already been leaked to ChatGPT.
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