According to a document and individuals cited by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Apple has limited the use of ChatGPT and other external artificial intelligence applications for its employees until Apple develops comparable technologies.
According to the article, Apple has warned its staff not to use GitHub’s Copilot, a tool used to automate the creation of software code that is owned by Microsoft, out of concern that their use of AI algorithms could cause them to divulge private information.
The company that developed ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced last month that it had added an “incognito mode” that did not record users’ chat histories or use them to enhance ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence.
How ChatGPT and other chatbots it inspired manage the hundreds of millions of user’s data, which is frequently used to improve, or “train,” AI, has come under increasing scrutiny.
On Thursday morning, OpenAI unveiled the ChatGPT app for Apple’s iOS in the US. In a press release upon the release of the ChatGPT app for iOS, OpenAI wrote, “Since the release of ChatGPT, we’ve heard from users that they love using ChatGPT on the go. Today, we’re launching the ChatGPT app for iOS.”