It just feels too good to be true.
I’m currently using it for formatting technical texts and it’s amazing. It doesn’t generate them properly. But if I give it the bulk of the info it makes it pretty af.
Also just talking and asking for advice in the most random kinds of issues. It gives seriously good advice. But it makes me worry about whether I’m volunteering my personal problems and innermost thoughts to a company that will misuse that.
Are these concerns valid?
I was not aware there have been leaks. Thank you. And oh yeah. I always verify the technical stuff I tell it to write. It just makes.it.look professional in ways that would take me hours.
My experience asking for new info from it has been bad. I don’t really do it anymore. But honestly. It’s not needed at all.
The big one was when histories (the prompts that other people used) were accidentally made visible to other users.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-bug-chat-histories-email-phone
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23649806/chatgpt-chat-histories-bug-exposed-disabled-outage
https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage
Also consider all the ‘ChatGPT extensions’ that people have written for chrome ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/ChatGPT ) and not infrequent occurrence when someone has an extension with a few tens of thousands of users which gets sold and converted into malware or snooping software ( https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/chrome_extension_developer_pressure/ ).
The issue would be if you’re feeding your employer’s intellectual property into the system. Someone then asking ChatGPT for a solution to a similar problem might then be given those company secrets. Samsung had a big problem with people in their semiconductor division using it to automate their work, and have since banned it on company devices.