Apple has also taken action! Restricting employees from using AI tools such as ChatGPT for data security reasons

Cailian News Agency, May 19th (Editor Zhou Ziyi)According to a document cited by the media on Thursday (May 18), Apple has restricted employees from using ChatGPT and other external artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Another source revealed that Apple is developing similar AI technology.

The document points out that Apple is concerned that employees using artificial intelligence programs may leak the company's confidential data.

In addition, it is recommended that employees do not use Microsoft's GitHubCopilot, an AI programming assistant used to automatically write software code.

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ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chat robot created by OpenAI, based on a large language model that can answer questions in a human like manner and perform other tasks.

Last month, OpenAI stated that it had introduced a privacy mode for ChatGPT, in which ChatGPT would not retain user conversation history or utilize historical conversations with users to improve its artificial intelligence.

Nevertheless, there is increasing scrutiny of ChatGPT and other chat robots, especially regarding how developers should manage data from hundreds of millions of users, which is typically used to improve or train artificial intelligence.

Apple has always been known for its strict security measures to protect information about its future products and consumer data.

In fact, not only Apple, but also companies such as JPMorgan Chase and American telecommunications operator Verizon have announced bans on using such applications; Amazon spokesperson recently stated that they hope to use ChatGPT to help coding engineers use Amazon's internal AI tools.

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This time, insiders also revealed to the media that Apple is developing its own large-scale language model.

The head of Apple's artificial intelligence field is John Giannandrea, a professional hired by Apple from Google in 2018. Currently, Apple has acquired many artificial intelligence startups.

During Apple's latest quarterly financial report conference call, CEO Cook talked about generative artificial intelligence and said, "We need to think carefully about how to handle these things.

Apple has recently been closely monitoring new software related to generative artificial intelligence on its AppStore, and the review team has also requested developers to raise the age limit for applications to 17 years old and above.

Earlier on Thursday, OpenAI launched the ChatGPT application for Apple iPhone users in the United States and promised to provide the same service for Android phones in the future.