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Here's how it works. 1. Home 2. News 3. Computing Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT By Lewis Maddison published 4 April 2023 Samsung meeting notes and new source code are now in the wild after being leaked in ChatGPT * (opens in new tab) * (opens in new tab) * * (opens in new tab) * (opens in new tab) * samsung semiconductor building (Image credit: Valeriya Zankovych / Shutterstock.com) Samsung workers have unwittingly leaked top secret data whilst using ChatGPT to help them with tasks. The company allowed engineers at its semiconductor arm to use the AI writer to help fix problems with their source code. But in doing so, the workers inputted confidential data, such as the source code itself for a new program, internal meeting notes data relating to their hardware. The upshot is that in just under a month, there were three recorded incidences of employees leaking sensitive information via ChatGPT. Since ChatGPT retains user input data to further train itself, these trade secrets from Samsung are now effectively in the hands of OpenAI, the company behind the AI service. Out in the OpenAI In response, Samsung Semiconductor is now developing its own inhouse AI for internal use by employees, but they can only use prompts that are limited to 1024 bytes in size. In one of the aforementioned cases, an employee asked ChatGPT to optimize test sequences for identifying faults in chips, which is confidential - however, making this process as efficient as possible has the potential to save chip firms considerable time in testing and verifying processors, leading to reductions in cost too. read more > What does AI mean for data privacy? (opens in new tab) > ChatGPT-like chatbots to fall into scope of UK law (opens in new tab) > Is an AI Bill of Rights enough? (opens in new tab) In another case, an employee used ChatGPT to convert meeting notes into a presentation, the contents of which were obviously not something Samsung would have liked external third parties to have known. Samsung Electronics sent out a warning to its workers on the potential dangers of leaking confidential information in the wake of the incidences, saying that such data is impossible to retrieve as it is now stored on the servers belonging to OpenAI. In the semiconductor industry, where competition is fierce, any sort of data leak could spell disaster for the company in question. It doesn't seem as if Samsung has any recourse to request the retrieval or deletion of the sensitive data OpenAI now holds. Some have argued (opens in new tab) that this very fact makes ChatGPT non-compliant with the EU's GDPR, as this is one of the core tenants of the law governing how companies collect and use data. 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His main areas of interest lie in technology as it relates to social and cultural issues around the world, and revels in uncovering stories that might not otherwise see the light of day. He has a BA in Philosophy from the University of London, with a year spent studying abroad in the sunny climes of Malta. 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