I’m gonna vehemently disagree with you. As a knowledge worker, ChatGPT allows me to offload low level thinking and writing tasks so I can focus on bigger picture creative aspects.
GPT speeds up my quality work output by around half. Those who refuse to incorporate it into their work flow will find they fall behind compared to those who have successfully integrated it.
Then you don’t have much faith for your co-workers competence in wielding any given tool to its greatest utility. Using an LLM like ChatGPT to access data hardly automatically means you’re also a brain-dead search result copy-paster.
Yes, its a new interface for existing data, the same way digital files are to data on paper. Only ever using the latter is really inefficient, and stupid in a world where the digital files exist. Not that the hardcopies cant be to their own utility, or be used as corroborating data.
It’s a really good interface, if you know how to use it. This is like banning search engines because you expect your workers to be expert at everything, so they shouldn’t need support tools to sleuth for data.
It’s a MASSIVE security risk. What you tell ChatGPT is not private, if you knowingly or unknowingly tell ChatGPT secret information you have no control over where that information may go. Especially for a company for Apple that lives & breaths on surprise product releases.
This is true, but if you understand that queries don’t necessarily need to also become training data, what you tell it could absolutely be kept secret, provided the necessary agreements and changes were to be made. Nothing about an LLM means you can’t make it forget things you’ve told it. What you can’t make it forget, without re-training it from the ground up with that piece of information omitted, is what you told it in the training data.
Leaking industry secrets is a much bigger concern that boosting productivity a little bit.
We’re talking about very specialized engineering work, it’s not something you can totally rely on a bot to do, though it might help sometimes, it’s fully understandable for specialized companies to want to ban GPT internally, until there’s a way for them to host a totally internal one.
We’re talking about very specialized engineering work,
We’re not though. This isn’t a policy preventing them from disclosing them from talking about specific company IP (which is almost certainly covered by existing NDAs already). This prevents them from using it internally at all.
I use ChatGPT at work all the time, usually for getting very specific information about products I have to integrate with, quickly parsing new API documentation, and learning about unfamiliar processes at a conceptual level before I have to dive deeper for a project. It’s more the context around which I’ll be building the specialized IP. It’s the sort of stuff I can learn via Googling (or sometimes Stack Exchange), but can learn it faster in a more targeted manner by asking detailed questions to the chatbot.
I don’t think being a customer would work either, language models are still on the training, noone knows exactly how users queries are used, that’s a big no no for every company having to protect their secrets.
A self-hosted instance is a much better solution, if not the only “safe” one from that point of view, we’ll get there.
I agree with your sentiment if the tech were self-hosted, but there are huge security risks to pasting sensitive internal content into a third party took
We’ve had similar issues with Grammerly. That shit is basically a cloud-based keylogger. My god it’s horrible that anybody installs such a thing.
How to neuter your own ability to compete: ban your workers from using the latest tool for boosting employee performance.
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I’m gonna vehemently disagree with you. As a knowledge worker, ChatGPT allows me to offload low level thinking and writing tasks so I can focus on bigger picture creative aspects.
GPT speeds up my quality work output by around half. Those who refuse to incorporate it into their work flow will find they fall behind compared to those who have successfully integrated it.
You could argue the same thing about using google. Yet you use google.
Then you don’t have much faith for your co-workers competence in wielding any given tool to its greatest utility. Using an LLM like ChatGPT to access data hardly automatically means you’re also a brain-dead search result copy-paster.
Yes, its a new interface for existing data, the same way digital files are to data on paper. Only ever using the latter is really inefficient, and stupid in a world where the digital files exist. Not that the hardcopies cant be to their own utility, or be used as corroborating data.
It’s a really good interface, if you know how to use it. This is like banning search engines because you expect your workers to be expert at everything, so they shouldn’t need support tools to sleuth for data.
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Better stop using xerox machines to make copies and write everything out by hand
Frankly, if ChatGPT isn’t increasing your performance significantly, you’re already falling behind the curve unless you’re doing manual labor.
Exactly. Used correctly, the amount of man-hours ChatGPT is able to save, is truly ludicrous.
It’s a MASSIVE security risk. What you tell ChatGPT is not private, if you knowingly or unknowingly tell ChatGPT secret information you have no control over where that information may go. Especially for a company for Apple that lives & breaths on surprise product releases.
This is true, but if you understand that queries don’t necessarily need to also become training data, what you tell it could absolutely be kept secret, provided the necessary agreements and changes were to be made. Nothing about an LLM means you can’t make it forget things you’ve told it. What you can’t make it forget, without re-training it from the ground up with that piece of information omitted, is what you told it in the training data.
But queries, do not suffer this limitation.
Leaking industry secrets is a much bigger concern that boosting productivity a little bit.
We’re talking about very specialized engineering work, it’s not something you can totally rely on a bot to do, though it might help sometimes, it’s fully understandable for specialized companies to want to ban GPT internally, until there’s a way for them to host a totally internal one.
We’re not though. This isn’t a policy preventing them from disclosing them from talking about specific company IP (which is almost certainly covered by existing NDAs already). This prevents them from using it internally at all.
I use ChatGPT at work all the time, usually for getting very specific information about products I have to integrate with, quickly parsing new API documentation, and learning about unfamiliar processes at a conceptual level before I have to dive deeper for a project. It’s more the context around which I’ll be building the specialized IP. It’s the sort of stuff I can learn via Googling (or sometimes Stack Exchange), but can learn it faster in a more targeted manner by asking detailed questions to the chatbot.
On this I agree entirely. The potential for corporate espionage because of unwitting employees using an LLM through unofficial means is huge.
At the very least, the corporation itself would have to be the customer, so that watertight terms might be negotiated, not the employee.
I don’t think being a customer would work either, language models are still on the training, noone knows exactly how users queries are used, that’s a big no no for every company having to protect their secrets.
A self-hosted instance is a much better solution, if not the only “safe” one from that point of view, we’ll get there.
I agree with your sentiment if the tech were self-hosted, but there are huge security risks to pasting sensitive internal content into a third party took
We’ve had similar issues with Grammerly. That shit is basically a cloud-based keylogger. My god it’s horrible that anybody installs such a thing.
That depends on what kind of agreement exists between your company, and that of the third party tool. Yes, in the worst case, the answer is “none”.
But most workflows involve quite a lot of third party tools, only they are all licensed, and with clear details worked out for what data can go where.
That employees are using such tools without there being a proper deal… Is a temporary problem to which a ban is not the solution.