Apple restricted employee use of ChatGPT and other third-party AI tools amid development of its own similar technology, The Wall Street Journal reports.


According to a document I have seen The Wall Street Journal And individuals who claim knowledge of the matter, Apple is concerned that AI tools could leak the company’s confidential data. In addition to ChatGPT, Apple has banned employees from using GitHub’s Copilot, a tool that helps write code with autocomplete.

Many companies, such as banks, financial services, and healthcare organizations, have avoided adopting ChatGPT for fear that their employees might inadvertently provide sensitive proprietary information to a chatbot. Samsung banned employee use of AI tools such as ChatGPT after it was discovered that employees had uploaded sensitive source code to the platform. The company is said to be concerned that data being sent to AI platforms including Bing and Google Bard could end up being disclosed to other users. Similarly, JPMorgan Chase and Verizon have both banned the use of these AI tools.

OpenAI has already sold Morgan Stanley’s ChatGPT service that allows employees to ask questions and analyze content in the bank’s thousands of market research documents. Microsoft is working on a version of ChatGPT aimed at business customers to address privacy concerns.

The move comes in the context of what appears to be Apple working on large language models and its own AI technologies, led by its senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy John Gianandrea. Giandrea previously worked for Google and now reports directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Wall Street Journal It did not provide more information about what Apple’s AI efforts include at this time.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been accessible on the web and across various third-party iOS apps for some time, but yesterday the company released its first official ChatGPT app for iPhone and iPad.

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