• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    6 months ago

    Not just burnout, opportunism features with several users I’ve spoken with. The level of ignorance surrounding ChatGPT is staggering.

    One egregious use I know of was a developer who used it to write software to analyse a government dataset despite their department having put in place specific and targeted restrictions specifically against any such activities.

    Their workaround was to use their private email to exfiltrate data and subsequently introduce the code.

    Their rationale was that it didn’t harm anyone and their ICT department would vet any code. They were not concerned about this private data showing up on the ChatGPT public log, nor were they concerned about the accuracy of their code.

    I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and I think it’s going to take a serious data breach of identifying information before people lose their jobs over this type of misuse.

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      6 months ago

      People have already lost jobs for this very behavior back in 2022. I remember reading news about Samsung managers even being sued by their employer because they fed secrets into ChatGPT. And if I remember correctly this serious breach was committed for the sole purpose of brushing up some emails.

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        6 months ago

        For a period the interactions you had with ChatGPT were public and a live stream was available.

        At the time when I looked at it, there was an astonishing amount of non-english traffic, but that might have been due to the fact that my UTC+8 timezone in Perth is the same as mainland China.

        I had a quick search just now to see if I could find a link, but all I can locate is posts about new privacy controls, so perhaps that "feature"went by the wayside at some point.