Apple employees will be restricted from using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools, The Wall Street Journal reports Friday.
Aaron Tilley and Miles Kruppa for The Wall Street Journal:
Apple is concerned workers who use these types of programs could release confidential data, according to the document. Apple also told its employees not to use Microsoft -owned GitHub’s Copilot, which automates the writing of software code, the document said.
ChatGPT, created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, is a chatbot derived from a so-called large language model that is able to answer questions, write essays and perform other tasks in humanlike ways.
When people use these models, data is sent back to the developer to enable continued improvements, presenting the potential for an organization to unintentionally share proprietary or confidential information.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple certainly wouldn’t want, for example, a marketing copywriter inputing mixed-reality headset specs and selling points into ChatGPT, Bard, or any third-party generative AI.
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They must know something.
The potential for abuse is huge.
I think that is very stupid and short sighted. Remember how our algebra teachers used to tell us we would not be carrying a calculator on us everywhere we went? Yet here we are with a smartphone on us all the time. This is going to become mainstream, and pretending that it is not is only going to leave you behind.
Read the reason. Not because it’s not potentially useful…because of secrecy.
Yes and look how dumb people have become.
This was a smart move by Apple, our company is doing the same. When technology exceeds your understanding, it’s a risk. Foolish companies will roll this out quick to be the first to say they have it, only to reap the benefits of their stupidity later with embarrassment and litigation.
This right here. Nobody is talking about the public data collection all those AI are gathering. They are not free. Privacy is muted in here for the sake of the AI revolution.
It does come at the price of privacy.
But hey! Who care about privacy nowadays
You can thank Apple for much of that. Most iOS users retain Google as default search engine. Apple profits and lets Google record everything you’ve searched. Apple claims to protect user privacy but their actions and user agreements prove otherwise.
People who care about privacy need to avoid iOS, android, and any website that makes 100% of its profits from Google ads.
People who cares about privacy? Lets define privacy. For most, when asked, their answer is : “I have nothing to hide”. Talk about knowledgeable.
“People who care about privacy need to avoid iOS, android, and any website that makes 100% of its profits from Google ads.”
So lets get the hell out of tech in general!
The definition of privacy isn’t a mystery. “The state of being free from unwanted or undue intrusion or disturbance” is a common interpretation.
One issue is that, despite widespread misunderstanding, privacy is NOT a right granted by the US Constitution. Section 8 specifically states that the Congress of these United States is empowered to “provide for the common Defence and general Welfare”. In other words, where individual freedom is pitted against collective good, the Constitution clearly favors the commons. Some people have tried to call on Amendments 3 and 4 to imply that citizens should have privacy, but this is misinterpretation. Neither of these refer to general privacy, but to military quartering and to seizure of private property without a Warrant. The legal interpretation of that has long been settled.
Now that we live in a digital era where multinational ad corporations make billions every year trading information taken from citizens without their express consent, it is long past due that privacy be specifically defined in the Constitution. While Congress is at it, they should get off their fat asses and define that corporations do not have the rights of the individual citizen, and that black hat campaign financing and organized misinformation campaigns is not speech. Also, it’s long past due that any data collection must require written consent at each instance by the citizen who originated or owns the data. Guess how many data trackers this web page offers!
Bravo. well said. congress and now the SC have been bought by corporations, that’s why individuals are losing their political leverage. we all know why assholes like santos and greene get elected – their puppetmasters installed them into their gerrymandered districts.
Steve88 you are spot on and I agree 100%
For decades, France and the EU have had a helluva lot stronger privacy protections with serious consequences for law breakers. WTF is wrong with our greedy Congress critters who grift and milk us and the lobbyists. TERM LIMITS are desperately needed; only 2 terms in the House and 1 in the Senate and that’s it. Other citizens want to serve too—get your asses out.
Sadly, “Plocgik” has it ass-backwards and used this post to push his agenda
Hypocrisy much?
You and the other few trolls here have pushed alt right garbage here. Now where do you get your new ideas? Did you get the latest plank of your activist social talking points from Desanctimonious on silky smooth Tweeter today?
You believe overpaid overexposed Musk made his propaganda platform better, obviously it doesn’t work. You believe à xenophobe who can’t negotiate a tax deal with a mouse cartoon could handle international relations. Your beliefs are well known. One would be proud to receive your attempt at criticism.