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Anton Shilov

Samsung Fab Workers Leak Confidential Data While Using ChatGPT

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After Samsung Semiconductor let its fab engineers use ChatGPT for assistance, they started using it to quickly fix errors in their source code, leaking confidential information like notes from internal meetings and data related to fab performance and yields in the process. The company now plans to develop its own ChatGPT-like AI service for internal use. But for now, it limits the length of questions submitted to the service to 1024 bytes, reports Economist.

So far, Samsung Semiconductor has recorded three instances of ChatGPT use which led to a data leaks. While three may not seem like a lot, they all happened over the course of 20 days, so the situation is quite disturbing.

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