Tech giant Apple internally bans the use of AI ChatGPT. And this is not without reason. Because Apple fears that trade secrets could end up in the wrong place.
Apple is the latest company to ban internal use of ChatGPT and similar products. The company behind the iPhone is not the first company to ban internal use.
Because in addition to Apple, other companies also have concerns that the AI could pass on sensitive internal information that is shared with it. Companies like Amazon and a number of banks like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup or Deutsche Bank now also have ChatGPT on their banned list.
Company secrets are evaluated by AI and also output as a result
what are the problems The problem with ChatGPT, Google Bard and LLM bots is that the data fed into them is often used to further train the bots.
The online magazine TheRegister reports, for example, that the British espionage agency GCHQ warns against using ChatGPT. Because feeding the AI sensitive data could easily result in confidential business information being spat out again when other people ask a similar question. And who would want someone else’s questions to be answered with internal trade secrets?
In addition, all users should be aware that AIs like ChatGPT do not offer any kind of privacy. Because when you register with the program, you will immediately receive the notification that “conversations can be checked by our AI trainers”.
In March 2023, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, acknowledged that a bug in the redis-py open-source library allowed portions of people’s conversations and chats with ChatGPT to be seen by other users.
Many companies are therefore very interested in hosting AI projects on their own servers. Apple also has its own projects in development to make itself more independent of AI bots like ChatGPT.
AI in companies: Incidentally, other companies do not see this as a problem and even rely heavily on AI being used by their own employees. One boss of a billion-dollar company explained that he now makes it a requirement that his colleagues can handle AI.
A boss of a billion-dollar company pays 2,000 euros a month so that all his colleagues use ChatGPT at work – and thus saves many hours of time