Semiconductor sector Samsung recently allowed his engineers to use ChatGPT for helping you quickly fix bugs in your source codes. However, according to the Economist website, this practice has led to the leakage of sensitive information such as notes from internal meetings and data relating to plant productivity and performance.. The company now plans to develop its own ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence service for internal use, but for now it has limited the length of questions sent to the service to 1024 bytes.

Still Samsung Semiconductor three cases of data leakage due to the use of ChatGPT have been recorded. Although they may seem few, all three occurred within 20 days, which is alarming.

In one case, a company employee uploaded the source code of a proprietary program to ChatGPT to fix bugs, essentially leaking the top-secret application code to artificial intelligence operated by a third-party company.

The second case was even more troubling, as another employee entered test patterns designed to identify faulty chips and requested optimization. Test sequences designed to detect defects are strictly confidential. Meanwhile, optimizing these test sequences, and possibly reducing their number, can speed up silicon testing and validation procedures, significantly reducing costs.

A third employee used the Naver Clova app to convert the meeting recording into a document and upload it to ChatGPT to prepare a presentation.

Confidential Information at Risk

These actions clearly put sensitive information at risk, prompting Samsung to warn its employees about the dangers of using ChatGPT. The company informed its managers and employees that the data entered into ChatGPT is transmitted and stored on external servers, which makes it impossible for the company to recover them and increases the risk of confidential information leakage. While ChatGPT is a powerful tool, its open learning feature can expose sensitive information to third parties, which is unacceptable in the highly competitive semiconductor industry.

The company is currently preparing protective measures to prevent similar incidents in the future. In the event of a repeat incident, even after the implementation of emergency measures to protect information, access to ChatGPT may be blocked in the company’s network. However, it is clear that things like generative AI and various AI-enabled electronic design automation tools are an important aspect of the future of chip manufacturing.

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Source: The Economist

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