The tech giant Apple internally prohibits the use of the AI ChatGPT. And this is not without reason. Apple is concerned that trade secrets could end up in the wrong hands.
Apple is another company that prohibits the internal use of ChatGPT and similar products. The company behind the iPhone is not the first to ban internal usage.
Besides Apple, other organizations also have concerns that the AI could share sensitive internal information that is shared with it.
Companies like Amazon and some banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank now have ChatGPT on their list of bans. All of the mentioned companies work with sensitive customer information.
Corporate secrets are evaluated by AI and also output as results
What are the problems? The issue with ChatGPT, Google Bard, and LLM bots is that the data input into them is often used to further train the bots.
The online magazine TheRegister reports that the British intelligence agency GCHQ warns against the use of ChatGPT. Feeding the AI sensitive data could easily lead to confidential business information being regurgitated when other people ask similar questions.
Who wants the questions of others answered with internal trade secrets? And do I really want my bank details to end up with another user because a bank employee has these processed through ChatGPT?
ChatGPT refers to limited data protection: Every user should be aware that AIs like ChatGPT offer no privacy. When you sign up for the program, you are immediately informed that “conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers.”
However, there are also errors that compromise privacy. In March 2023, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, acknowledged that a bug in the open-source library redis-py allowed parts of conversations and chats with ChatGPT to be viewed by other users.
Many companies are therefore very interested in hosting AI projects on their own servers. This way, they can prevent important or confidential information from ending up in the wrong hands. Apple is also now developing its own projects to become less dependent on AI bots like ChatGPT.
AIs in companies: Other companies do not see this as problematic and are actually relying heavily on having their employees use AI. For example, a CEO of a billion-dollar company stated that he now makes it a prerequisite for his colleagues to be able to work with AI.
