What happened at Samsung

Module 4: Privacy and safe use at work

Course outline

Quick check

Guess first, no penalty. In 2023, Samsung engineers put confidential source code into ChatGPT (an AI chat tool). What were they doing?

In 2023, Samsung engineers pasted confidential source code (the text of a program) and meeting notes into ChatGPT. After the incident, Samsung restricted staff use of generative AI tools, Bloomberg reported in May 2023.

So a routine paste can be the risky one. Before any paste, run the five-row check: personal data, confidential business information, passwords and secrets, other people's private messages, and anything under an NDA (a contract to keep information private). Then give the AI the shape of the problem, not the content.

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