Samsung Electronics prohibits employees from using popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT. This is because they discovered that their employees had uploaded sensitive code to the platform, hindering the spread of such technology in the workplace.
The Suwon, South Korea-based company notified staff of one of its largest divisions about the new policy on Monday via a memo seen by Bloomberg News. According to the document, the company said that data sent to artificial intelligence platforms such as Google Bard and Bing would be stored on external servers, making it difficult to retrieve, delete, and could ultimately be disclosed to other users. I am concerned that there is
Last month, the company conducted a survey on its internal use of AI tools and said 65% of respondents believed such services pose a security risk. According to the note, a Samsung engineer accidentally leaked internal source code by uploading it to his ChatGPT earlier in April. It’s unclear what the information contained, and a Samsung representative declined to comment.
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