If you have become a fan of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT may be more than burned out from use by now. In fact, you’ll also be well aware that all the information you share with ChatGPT is used to further train and improve the model.
However, it appears that Samsung employees were unaware of this (or deliberately ignored it) as confidential company data has appeared inside ChatGPT. In one of the reported cases, a worker copied and pasted confidential source code inside ChatGPT to ask him to “optimize” it. A third also shared a recording of a meeting to transcribe what was discussed and turn it into notes for a presentation. All of this information is now available to ChatGPT.
Many privacy experts have already talked about this issue and the lack of control (as we have now seen). Although ChatGPT can be very useful for optimizing day-to-day tasks, users should be clear about one thing before using it: private or confidential information should never be shared with the model.
In fact, this is something that OpenAI itself (the company behind ChatGPT) has insisted on publicly. However, experts warn that the model may also violate compliance with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which is why Italy recently banned the use of ChatGPT.
For the time being, Samsung has taken action and is already investigating the case to find out who was involved in the leak. As a result, the company has also considered developing its own internal chatbot to prevent such slips. At the moment, only one thing is clear: it is unlikely that Samsung will recover any of the data already leaked.
