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> Generally rewriting emails for clarity...

This is the sort of thing that will force a lot of legal teams to shutdown access to GPT-4 api/gui from internal networks.

Ppl never think of unintended consequences.

Ask it a prompt fine but don't provide internal information as an input.

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Yeah, I have found I need to be careful. When I have used it, there is no confidential information in the email. I do pay attention to that.

That said,I think it will be interesting as Microsoft introduces this into Office 365. You bring up a great point. Most people will not realize they are sending potentially confidential information to Microsoft.

Perhaps it's no different than Grammarly... But I think you are right that legal departments are going to be all over this.

They already are. It is 99% stored on a Sharepoint on a Teams site anyways

What does this mean? I'm unfamiliar with Teams, the only person I know who uses it is my partner who works for the government (non-technically).

It means quite literally what it says - if you have office 365 you most likely have all your data in the MS cloud sharepoint. MS also has a separate government cloud.

Not only do you likely have access to all the other Microsoft stuff if your company is using teams, teams uses sharepoint for file sharing. If you use only teams for 2 years and one day login to office365.com, you’ll probably be surprised with the main screen that shows the files you’ve shared (without context, they’re just sitting there) and you’ll probably also be able to see what files your colleagues are sharing and working on.

I think companies are fine with sending confidential data to Microsoft (Office, GitHub, Azure...). It's just so far unclear with ChatGPT if that data can come back out. It has apparently already leaked some user queries, so that was a very reasonable concern.

If they put it in Office and guarantee siloing information the legal departments will just have a regular contract to review and approve.

This is one of the causes there's a push to run your own engines for large language models: if you run your own service you can control the environment, data and reproducibility.

This is exactly what my employer is doing, they pay so that our internal data (from employee queries) does not become part of the model. They've blocked the public chat gpt etc.

openAI claims that user data is not being used for training since March 1st.

Only for the API. If you are using the chatGPT website, that is fair game.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

Thanks for the clarification. It seems I misremembered it.

Get ready for ChatGPT: Enterprise edition! Now with SOC 2 compliance!

A couple more years of chip improvements and it may run self contained within a device.

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