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Soon, an Amazon corporate lawyer chimed in. She warned employees not to provide ChatGPT with “any Amazon confidential information (including Amazon code you are working on),” according to a screenshot of the message seen by Insider.
The attorney, a senior corporate counsel at Amazon, suggested employees follow the company’s existing conflict of interest and confidentiality policies because there have been “instances” of ChatGPT responses looking similar to internal Amazon data.
“This is important because your inputs may be used as training data for a further iteration of ChatGPT, and we wouldn’t want its output to include or resemble our confidential information (and I’ve already seen instances where its output closely matches existing material),” the lawyer wrote.
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“OpenAI is far from transparent about how they use the data, but if it’s being folded into training data, I would expect corporations to wonder: After a few months of widespread use of ChatGPT, will it become possible to extract private corporate information with cleverly crafted prompts?” said Emily Bender, who teaches computational linguistics at University of Washington.
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some Amazonians are already using the AI tool as a software “coding assistant” by asking it to improve internal lines of code, according to Slack messages seen by Insider.
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For Amazon employees, data privacy seems to be the least of their concerns. They said using the chatbot at work has led to “10x in productivity,” and many expressed a desire to join internal teams developing similar services.
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Source: Amazon Warns Staff Not to Share Confidential Information With ChatGPT
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