On Tuesday, global technology giant Samsung told employees that using ChatGPT on company systems is no longer allowed.

In a memo sent to employees, Bloomberg reports, Samsung prohibited the use of the wildly popular chatbot due to concerns that employees were feeding ChatGPT sensitive corporate information. Samsung says in its notice that data sent to AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing are stored on external servers, may be hard to retrieve or delete, and could be disclosed to others.

Like many technology companies, Samsung is very protective of its intellectual property, including hardware and software designs and product release roadmaps. While it’s unclear whether Samsung-specific information could be retrieved from the Large Language Models used by generative AI tools, even abstracted information could be exploited by competitors.

(By Jason Nelson)