Samsung has imposed a"temporary" ban on generative AI tools like ChatGPT after what appears to be an accidental source code leak.told staffers they'd better not use tech such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Bard on pain of termination because of the risk to the company's intellectual property. The newswire said this morning that the leaked memo had been sent to one of Sammy's"biggest divisions," adding that the company had confirmed this.
The memo reportedly said:"Interest in generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT has been growing internally and externally... While this interest focuses on the usefulness and efficiency of these platforms, there are also growing concerns about security risks presented by generative AI." The move seems to be a re-ban by the massive South Korean electronics company. An earlier ban was lifted earlier this year amid unconfirmed reports fromthat Samsung staffers had entered corporate secrets into the chatbot in an attempt to iron out bugs in"problematic" source code, as well as when trying to generate meeting minutes, among other alleged blunders.
If they had done, they wouldn't be the first engineers to try to get the chatbot to help them with the arduous process of testing software and fixing code. Compsci researchers Chunqiu Steven Xia and Lingming Zhang have even created an automated process for this,a paper showing how cheap and effective at least one solution is.
As for OpenAI, the company behind the text-based assistant is already putting up some of its own guardrails as the chatbot attracts more and more attention from regulators. Last week it launched a