ChatGPT, which was supposed to help Samsung boost semiconductor division, has now become a nightmare for the company. The Korean OEM’s sensitive information is reportedly leaked by ChatGPT.
Three weeks ago, the Samsung CEO mapped out the company’s vision for AI-enabled machines and chatbots. As a part of this vision, Samsung aimed to provide its employees with access to ChatGPT to help them with certain processes in semiconductors.
However, DigiTimes reports that the company’s sensitive semiconductor data leaked three times because the employees introduced data to ChatGPT. The data is stored in the ChatGPT database, and now every user searching for information on semiconductors might end up with some of Samsung’s sensitive data.
ChatGPT is exposing Samsung’s sensitive semiconductor information
AI chatbots like ChatGPT consume data to improve and expand their knowledge of various fields. Every data given to the chatbot is stored and helps it to answer questions from other searchers. Samsung employees made a huge mistake by giving the company’s sensitive data to ChatGPT, which remains there forever. Of course, Samsung might be able to remove data from the ChatGPT database by contacting the parent company OpenAI.
The incident reportedly happened three times and leaked Samsung semiconductor equipment measurement data. The first time an employee at the Semiconductor and Device Solutions department entered the source code into ChatGPT to look for a solution for an issue in the semiconductor equipment measurement database.
In the second incident, an employee entered the code into ChatGPT and asked for optimization in order to understand it better. Finally, the last incident happened when an employee requested ChatGPT to create meeting minutes. All data that Samsung employees enter into the chatbot are stored in its database and used to answer other users’ questions.
Samsung has asked employees to be more cautious when sharing information with ChatGPT. The company also limited the capacity of each entry into ChatGPT to a maximum of 1,024 bytes.
The semiconductor is one of the most sensitive industries in the world, and each company tries to keep its secrets. A leak in sensitive production data might cause a company to lose its competitive advantages.
2023-04-04 15:07:58