Apple bans its workers from using artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT
Apple has banned its workers from using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT and other tools out of fear that employees could disclose confidential company information, according to internal company documents accessed by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Apple told its employees not to use either OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft-owned GitHub’s Copilot, which automates the writing of software code, according to the media outlet.
Since it was opened to the public last year, this type of generative AI is often used for writing emails, presentation texts and even programming.
Apple is known for being very secretive with its projects and extremely rigorous with its security to protect information about future products.
According to the WSJ, Apple is also working on its own language models (LLM), to train its own AI.
The iPhone makers are not alone in imposing this ban on their employees.
For its part, fellow tech giant Amazon has urged its engineers who want to use ChatGPT for coding assistance to use its own in-house AI tool. And companies like JPMorgan Chase and Verizon have banned the use of these tools altogether.
But now we are also seeing cases like New York City schools, which initially vetoed these tools and are now opting to integrate AI into programs across curricula.