Samsung Bans ChatGPT to Protect Sensitive Data

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After discovering staff uploaded sensitive code to the platform, Samsung Electronics notified one of its biggest divisions that ChatGPT is banned in the workplace.

According to a company memo, the company is concerned that data transmitted to such artificial intelligence platforms, including Google Bard and Bing, is stored on external servers, making it difficult to retrieve and delete, and could end up being disclosed to other users.

The company conducted a survey last month about using AI tools internally and said that 65% of respondents believe such services pose a security risk. In April, Samsung engineers accidentally leaked internal source code by uploading it to ChatGPT.

Samsung is just the latest big company to express concern about the technology. In February, only a couple of months after OpenAI’s chatb…