IBM Blockchain and AI Expert Says ChatGPT Has Several "Key Risks" for Enterprise Use

Listing many areas of concern, IBM Automation's Jerry Cuomo outlines potential pitfalls for businesses using ChatGPT.

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IBM Automation CTO Jerry Cuomo recently published a blog post exposing what he claims are several risks associated with using ChatGPT for businesses.

There are several key risk areas, according to the blog post, that businesses should consider before using ChatGPT. Ultimately, however, Cuomo concludes that only non-sensitive data is safe with ChatGPT:

“Once your data enters ChatGPT,” Cuomo writes, “you have no control or knowledge of how it is used.”

According to the message, this type of inadvertent data leak could also put companies at risk, legally speaking, if a partner's, customer's or customer's data is exposed to the general public after being disclosed in ChatGPT training data.

Cuomo further cites intellectual property risks and the possibility that leaks could put companies in breach of open source agreements.

According to IBM's blog post:

"If sensitive third-party or internal company information is entered into ChatGPT, it becomes part of the chatbot's data model and may be shared with others who ask relevant questions."

Cointelegraph contacted OpenAI for comment regarding the above statement and received the following response from a PR intermediary via email: "[T]he data will not be shared with others who ask relevant questions."

The rep also referenced existing documentation on ChatGPT's privacy features, including a blog post detailing the ability for people to opt out of their chat history.

The ChatGPT API has data sharing disabled by default, according to OpenAI.