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Due to data security concerns, Microsoft employees have been temporarily banned from ChatGPT. A mistake, says Microsoft afterwards. Yesterday, Microsoft employees received an internal message that some AI
Due to data security concerns, Microsoft employees have been temporarily banned from ChatGPT. A mistake, says Microsoft afterwards.
Yesterday, Microsoft employees received an internal message that some AI tools were being shut down due to “security and data concerns.” In addition to the design tool Canva, ChatGPT from OpenAI was also targeted. CNBC obtained a screenshot confirming the news.
Now Microsoft is certainly not the first (large) company to restrict the use of ChatGPT on work devices. Samsung, for example, also makes little sense with the chatbot. The difference is that other companies have not invested billions in OpenAI and are using the underlying GPT models themselves to offer AI products.
In this case, it turned out to be a mistake on Microsoft’s part, at least that’s what Redmond said in its statement. Microsoft tested a new endpoint control system for LLMs and “accidentally” enabled it for all employees. Almost immediately after the news leaked, access to ChatGPT was restored to prevent a bug with OpenAI.
Microsoft emphasizes that despite the investments, it views ChatGPT as an external service and therefore must meet the same security standards as any other AI product that it does not develop itself. Management also prefers that employees use their own Bing Chat Enterprise. If they still want to use ChatGPT, preferably the Enterprise version to keep the internal kitchen in-house.
Rumors quickly spread that OpenAI had “taken revenge” and in turn excluded employees from access to Microsoft 365 applications. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, assures CEO Sam Altman in his post X profile. Everything quickly went back to normal between OpenAI and Microsoft; are human errors.
The temporary blocking of ChatGPT therefore appears to be independent of the technical issues that occurred with the chatbot this week. OpenAI confirmed that this was the result of a possible politically motivated DDoS attack. Since yesterday evening at 10 p.m. the problems should have completely disappeared.
Source: IT Daily
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