slashd t1_ja89hh5 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 4:10 PM

Reply to comment by TheTelegraph in Microsoft staff read users’ ChatGPT posts, prompting security fears by TheTelegraph

>Employers including JP Morgan and Amazon have banned or restricted staff use of ChatGPT, which uses similar technology, amid concerns that sensitive information could be fed into the bot.

Sure, dont copy/paste your presentation to the board of directors with financial numbers into ChatGPT. But code with an error in it shouldn't be a problem.

damianTechPM t1_ja8vyko wrote on February 27, 2023 at 6:34 PM

Think of all that yummy, delicious code protected by an NDA or otherwise private work that Microsoft now has access to, because a Google developer wanted ChatGPT to check their work?

Markavian t1_ja9g1h9 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:40 PM

Microsoft own GitHub you know? They could legitimately look at code in every single private repo, describe it as maintenance or security/vulnerability scanning, and give the whole lot to the NSA for increased funding / political capital, and no one would blink an eye?

GarbageTheClown t1_ja8zmnq wrote on February 27, 2023 at 6:57 PM

Very few people would be dumb enough to use chunks of random code that they don't know the copyright state of. If they did and the company they work for found out that they did it intentionally they would probably be fired.

damianTechPM t1_ja9bok0 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:13 PM

That's just the thing - developers look for shortcuts (and my google-fu kicks ass as good as anyone else). Probably not thinking that code will now be in the public domain.

Head-Ad4690 t1_ja9nnya wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:28 PM

No way. If my employer found out I put proprietary source code into some random company’s text box, they’d fire me out of a cannon into the sun.