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Samsung bans ChatGPT after staff leak code
Confidential code typed into a chatbot showed companies a new kind of data leak
Key facts
- Date
- 1 May 2023
- Era
- The ChatGPT shock
- Interest
- Culture
- Threads
- Safety & governance
- Leaks
- Three incidents: faulty source code, equipment-defect code, and a meeting recording turned into notes
- First response
- Prompts capped at 1,024 bytes
- Ban
- Generative AI barred on company computers, tablets and phones from 1 May 2023
- Survey
- 65% of staff responding to an internal survey said such tools pose a security risk
Korean media reported in late March 2023 that Samsung semiconductor staff had entered confidential source code and a meeting recording into ChatGPT on three occasions. Samsung then told employees not to use generative AI tools (AI that produces text, images or code) on company devices, in a temporary ban that took effect on 1 May. Wall Street banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup had already banned or restricted ChatGPT.
Sources
- Bloomberg, Samsung Bans ChatGPT, Google Bard, Other Generative AI Use by Staff After Leak, 2023-05-02
- TechCrunch, Samsung bans use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT after April internal data leak, 2023-05-02
- CIO Dive, Samsung employees leaked corporate data in ChatGPT: report, 2023-04-07