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Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know (www.wired.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not just burnout, opportunism features with several users I've spoken with. The level of ignorance surrounding ChatGPT is staggering.

One egregious use I know of was a developer who used it to write software to analyse a government dataset despite their department having put in place specific and targeted restrictions specifically against any such activities.

Their workaround was to use their private email to exfiltrate data and subsequently introduce the code.

Their rationale was that it didn't harm anyone and their ICT department would vet any code. They were not concerned about this private data showing up on the ChatGPT public log, nor were they concerned about the accuracy of their code.

I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and I think it's going to take a serious data breach of identifying information before people lose their jobs over this type of misuse.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

People have already lost jobs for this very behavior back in 2022. I remember reading news about Samsung managers even being sued by their employer because they fed secrets into ChatGPT. And if I remember correctly this serious breach was committed for the sole purpose of brushing up some emails.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is the ChatGPT public log?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For a period the interactions you had with ChatGPT were public and a live stream was available.

At the time when I looked at it, there was an astonishing amount of non-english traffic, but that might have been due to the fact that my UTC+8 timezone in Perth is the same as mainland China.

I had a quick search just now to see if I could find a link, but all I can locate is posts about new privacy controls, so perhaps that "feature"went by the wayside at some point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s… not true at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Someone made an app using the OpenAI api, offered it for “free”, and scooped a bunch of users conversations (sort of. 89k isn’t that large) before getting shut down. That’s not at all what you were alleging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Don't leave me hanging. Was the dev fired / sent to jail?