A community dedicated to the profession of IT Systems Administration.
We don’t block ChatGPT because our CEO is absolutely drinking the AI kool-aid. He believes that not using ChatGPT for everything is far riskier to the business than anything else in the world could be.
However, we do block all of the “AI” note-taking / transcription apps. The only exception is the one in Microsoft Teams that comes with the Premium license.
@whatwhatwhatwhat Our marketing team is absolutely chomping at the bit for it. I do think there's some safe and reasonable application of text generation, but I'm wary they know "safe" or "reasonable". I feel like Teams would be a better option than most considering how many compliance/regulation acronyms Microsoft has collected.
I REALLY do wish they'd stop trying to install everything AI related in the Chrome Web Store though...
It’s blocked for us, because it’s a confidentiality and licensing liability.
Confidentiality because prompt data can be used for training / review outside the company.
Licensing because if it generates code and we use that code, it’s hypothetically possible that code is actually part of a codebase subject to a restrictive / “toxic” license that could get the company sued if not handled properly.
@th0th_Q Ah, I didn't even think of the licensing angle. Good point. It will be interesting to see the first legal case on that pop up.
I mean what are the cons of allowing chat GPT in your network? It could be a very useful tool to a lot of people. What are the risks of leaving chat GPT on your network?
@adhdplantdev The risk as I understand it is compromising confidentiality. Most AI apps, including ChatGPT, use your prompts in their training sets creating a risk for a random end-user pasting confidential information into a prompt. I might be able to argue that in certain compliance/regulation requirements it could be considered an accidental disclosure and require a notice be sent out.
I mean I suppose it comes down to how much you trust your users. I do think it's going to be very very difficult to block out all AI solutions especially since they are now open source AI GPT models. It's a good point about accidentally using confidential information in a prompt, or having the AI recommend code that may be under a toxic license. If you're a massive company there's probably a much higher risk than if you're in a smaller company. I suppose it depends also on your company culture. Either way if you try and block it I would expect there to be a fight to unblock it.