Several tech companies including Samsung have allowed workers to take help from ChatGPT while performing tasks. However, this landed employees in hot water when they accidentally leaked confidential information to the AI chatbot.
Samsung had allowed its engineers at the semiconductor division to use ChatGPT to help fix problems with source code. The employees mistakenly entered top-secret data like source code for a new program, and internal meeting notes relating to their hardware. In just a span of one month, three such incidents were reported.
Notably, ChatGPT retains the data it is fed to train itself further. Hence, these trade secrets from Samsung are now in the hands of the AI chatbot maker OpenAI.
Read more: https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/samsung-employees-accidentally-leaked-company-secrets-via-chatgpt-heres-what-happened-376375-2023-04-06
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