Samsung Banned ChatGPT Company-Wide After Three Engineers Pasted Confidential Semiconductor Source Code Into the Chatbot in 20 Days — Including Meeting Recordings and a Chip Equipment Bug Fix
May 2023: Within weeks of allowing ChatGPT, Samsung Semiconductor discovered 3 separate leaks: (1) source code of a sensitive measurement database, (2) source code for a chip equipment yield optimization program, (3) a full meeting transcript. Because OpenAI retains input data for training, the code was now in ChatGPT's memory. Samsung built its own internal model and banned external LLMs.
Samsung Banned ChatGPT Company-Wide After Three Engineers Pasted Confidential Semiconductor Source Code Into the Chatbot in 20 Days — Including Meeting Recordings and a Chip Equipment Bug Fix
May 2023: Within weeks of allowing ChatGPT, Samsung Semiconductor discovered 3 separate leaks: (1) source code of a sensitive measurement database, (2) source code for a chip equipment yield optimization program, (3) a full meeting transcript. Because OpenAI retains input data for training, the code was now in ChatGPT's memory. Samsung built its own internal model and banned external LLMs.
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