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My company is coming out with a policy that you can't put anything into ChatGPT. I'm ignoring it, the simple fact of the matter is it's a powerful tool. The firms that choose to use this will rapidly outpace those that don't, who will be left behind.

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Congratulating, you're sending your work products to a third party under extremely permissive agreements. You may be:

* Rendering invalid any attempts to assert intellectual property (trade secrets, patents).

* Destroying attorney-client privilege

* Violating consumer privacy laws

* In some other sectors, you may have even stronger no-data-sharing laws that get violated (e.g., HIPAA, FERPA).

I suspect your company's policy is based on legal concerns such as the above... do you really understand the legal risks of violating your company's policy? Are you really willing to take on all that legal risk personally (the company sure isn't going to protect your ass)?

Maybe it's not a good idea to put your employer's source code out onto some random website. If you wouldn't put it on here, you probably shouldn't put it on ChatGPT. I'm sure it's only a matter of time there will be a code ai that can be run behind a firewall but until then stop giving away the secret sauce.

Azure is supposedly compartmentalized.

It's too soon to see these boundaries fail, but they're supposed to be the "safe" option for this.

You are aware that openai explicitly says they send the prompts and answers to affiliated parties that read them and rate them to put them back into their reinforcement learning database?

Firms that choose to use it indiscriminately will also be exporting domain knowledge (likely including those that give them a competitive advantage) into ChatGPT.

This doesn't matter in roles that are complementary to where the most value is generated (the phrase "commoditize your complement" exists for a reason) but that's not all roles.

> who will be left behind

You need to think about where you're going before you just blindly follow "progress". You're assuming that you'll be better off than the ones left behind, I wouldn't always be so sure.

That's not for you to decide until it's your own company and your own IP.

Looks like he decided it anyway.

You have a good reason to not want layoffs in your company unless by “your company” you mean you are the owner.

I also can’t paste anything in ChatGPT window, there are at least 3 spying/tracking software pieces on my work computers. I will comply.

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