Apple said to restrict use of ChatGPT, other AI tools for employees
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is reportedly curbing the use of external generative artificial intelligence tools for its employees, such as ChatGPT, as it looks to develop similar technology.
The company is concerned that use of the tools could result in confidential data being publicly released, The Wall Street Journal
reported, citing an internal document and people familiar with the matter.
In March, OpenAI temporarily disabled the history feature of ChatGPT after it learned some users were able to see other usersâ conversations.
Since then, OpenAI has introduced the ability to turn off their chat history, impacting the ability of its large language models to learn from that information.
Earlier this week, ChatGPT, which is backed by billions of dollars from Microsoft, announced that it had created an app for iOS, with an Android app coming soon.
Apple (AAPL) has started to ramp up hiring for generative AI jobs, having posted several positions to its careers page this week.
On last month's earnings call, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook said generative AI was interesting, but that caution was needed.
"I do think it's very important to be deliberate and thoughtful in how you approach these things," Cook said in response to a question related to generative AI.
"And there's a number of issues that need to be sorted," Cook added. "As is being talked about in a number of different places. But the potential is certainly very interesting."
Apple (AAPL) shares were fractionally higher in early Friday trading.
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