With 20 days of ChatGPT implementation at Samsung semiconductor factory, ChatGPT accidentally leaked Samsung corporate data.
The leaked content about semiconductors is ‘plant measurement’ and ‘efficiency/defect’, and the report states that if corporate secrets are entered in the question, the content could be leaked to an unspecified number of people.
There were 3 incidents where Samsung Electronics’ corporate information was accidentally entered into ChatGPT.
As a result, Samsun Electronics prevents ChatGPT from being used in workplaces for fear of leaking internal confidential information. In addition, the company warns its managers and employees to “be careful about information security and not to enter private information”.
What is the Exact Information Leaked by ChatGPT?
Sources reporting this incident stated that the content of the case detected by Samsung Electronics was ‘2 equipment information leaks and 1 meeting content’.
As a result, the company limited the upload capacity to 1024 bytes.
To examine the 3 cases encountered;
An employee in the DS division saw an error while executing the source code of the semiconductor plant measurement database download program and tried to find a solution by entering the source code into ChatGPT for solutions.
The second employee requested code optimization by entering the program code of an inefficient and malfunctioning equipment into ChatGPT.
Another employee converted the meeting he recorded on his mobile phone into a document file via the Naver Clova app and sent the file to ChatGPT to prepare for the meeting.
Writer: Batuhan IRMALI