Microsoft Briefly Restricted Employee Access To OpenAI's ChatGPT, Citing Security Concerns (cnbc.com) 5
Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI. But for a brief time on Thursday, employees of the software company weren't allowed to use the startup's most famous product, ChatGPT, CNBC reported. From a report: "Due to security and data concerns a number of AI tools are no longer available for employees to use," Microsoft said in an update on an internal website. "While it is true that Microsoft has invested in OpenAI, and that ChatGPT has built-in safeguards to prevent improper use, the website is nevertheless a third-party external service," Microsoft said. "That means you must exercise caution using it due to risks of privacy and security. This goes for any other external AI services, such as Midjourney or Replika, as well."
The company initially said it was banning ChatGPT and design software Canva, but later removed a line in the advisory that included those products. After initial publication of this story, Microsoft reinstated access to ChatGPT. In a statement to CNBC, Microsoft said the ChatGPT temporary blockage was a mistake resulting from a test of systems for large language models. "We were testing endpoint control systems for LLMs and inadvertently turned them on for all employees," a spokesperson said. "We restored service shortly after we identified our error. As we have said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections."
The company initially said it was banning ChatGPT and design software Canva, but later removed a line in the advisory that included those products. After initial publication of this story, Microsoft reinstated access to ChatGPT. In a statement to CNBC, Microsoft said the ChatGPT temporary blockage was a mistake resulting from a test of systems for large language models. "We were testing endpoint control systems for LLMs and inadvertently turned them on for all employees," a spokesperson said. "We restored service shortly after we identified our error. As we have said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections."
ChatGPT Enterprise (Score:2)
So, basically OpenAI has two levels: one is where you are the product, and one is where they sell you a product. (And not, paying $20 a month does not save you from becoming that product).
ChatGPT Enterprise as mentioned is where they plan to make some of the big bucks (the other one is the API). I initially thought they would actually lean on the API to make the money, but it seems like a break even (yes it is real cheap for the computing power, you can compare this with running an open source model in pul
Re: (Score:2)
I'm really not sure how we can realistically look at developing anything that resembles "AI", and somehow not call us humans the product. The hell do we assume that 'intelligence' is learning everything from exactly? Of course we're the product.
But if you think ChatGPT could replace your therapist with your most important inner thoughts... I have bad news for you.
Yeah. Post-COVID, that therapist is probably worse off than the patients.
What Realy Happened (Score:2)
Bob: "Hey, I can't get to ChatGPT!"
Ted: "Someone has changed the access control."
IT#1: "We didn't change anything down here ?!?"
"Strange, there's a TCP connection from ChatGPT into the network right now. The endpoint is some unregistered IP in the Bing lab."
IT#2: "Hey, what are these log entries in the Network Access Control system a few minutes ago? Some unregistered IP in the ... Bing lab?"
IT#1: "??? Refresh the log viewer."
IT#2: "Oh, wait, what was I looking at? I don't see those log entries now."
Bob: "W
Seems like a reasonable response (Score:3)
Not sure why this is news.
Quick shut down the internet (Score:1)
Quick shut down the internet its alive!