Amazon Warns Employees Against Sharing Confidential Data with ChatGPT

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Amazon has warned employees not to input confidential company information, including code, into ChatGPT due to concerns that such data could be used to train the AI and potentially leak proprietary information. The warning follows instances where ChatGPT outputs resembled internal Amazon data, highlighting risks of data privacy and intellectual property breaches.[AI generated]

Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?

The event involves an AI system (ChatGPT) and concerns about its use potentially leading to the exposure of confidential information, which could be a violation of intellectual property rights if it were to happen. However, the article describes a preventive warning rather than an actual incident of harm or breach. Therefore, this situation represents a plausible risk of harm rather than realized harm, fitting the definition of an AI Hazard rather than an AI Incident or Complementary Information.[AI generated]
AI principles
Privacy & data governanceRobustness & digital securityAccountabilityTransparency & explainabilityRespect of human rights
Industries
Digital securityIT infrastructure and hosting
Affected stakeholders
Business
Harm types
Economic/PropertyReputationalHuman or fundamental rights
Business function:
ICT management and information securityResearch and development
AI system task:
Content generationInteraction support/chatbots

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