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Apple is banning its employees from using ChatGPT, but why?

Apple is banning its employees from using ChatGPT, but why?

In the same week that OpenAI launched a ChatGPT iPhone app, Apple banned employees from using AI

Apple joins the list of companies that have already banned employee access to ChatGPT and similar AI platforms. So far, these include Amazon, Samsung and JP Morgan Chase.

According to a report from the WSJ, "Apple is concerned that employees using these types of programs could leak confidential data."

Apple has also told employees not to use Microsoft-owned GitHub's Copilot, which automates the writing of software code.

Concerns arise that when people use these models, input data is collected by the companies behind them - in theory to continually improve the product.