Since ChatGPT gained popularity last year, the tech industry has been perspiring, and now Amazon is also feeling the pressure.
An Amazon lawyer reportedly advised staff members not to share code with the AI chatbot, according to internal corporate messages obtained by Insider.
Amazon’s advice to its Employees on using ChatGPT
According to screenshots of Slack discussions examined by the outlet, Insider reported earlier this week that the lawyer specifically ordered that staff not communicate “any Amazon confidential information (including Amazon code you are working on)” with ChatGPT.
The advice was issued in response to reports that the company saw ChatGPT responses that closely resembled data from within Amazon.
“This is important because your inputs may be used as training data for a further iteration of ChatGPT, and we wouldn’t want its output to include or resemble our confidential information (and I’ve already seen instances where its output closely matches existing material),” the lawyer wrote further, according to Insider.
Given that ChatGPT purportedly properly answered interview questions for a software development position at the company, Amazon is undoubtedly correct that ChatGPT obtained its data from the organization.
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Transcripts of Slack channels, which Insider has also studied, claim that the AI improved some of Amazon’s code in addition to offering accurate answers to concerns about software engineering.
“I was honestly impressed!” an employee reportedly wrote on Slack. “I’m both scared and excited to see what impact this will have on the way that we conduct coding interviews.”
Although ChatGPT’s novelty hasn’t worn off yet, concerns about how it might affect our daily lives have emerged in recent weeks.
Albeit ChatGPT was able to pass a final test in an MBA-level course at Wharton (although it did struggle with some fundamental arithmetic), its use in education—among other fields—is questionable.
The CEO of OpenAI just thinks school administrators need to get over their concerns. Some school systems, including the New York City Department of Education, have decided to ban the technology due to concerns about cheating.
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