In related news, OpenAI experienced a suspected distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack, causing periodic outages. The service was interrupted for more than two hours on November 7, followed by a major outage the next day. Normal service resumed yesterday. While criminals linked to Russia have claimed responsibility, this has not been confirmed.
Key takeaways:
- Microsoft temporarily blocked internal access to OpenAI's ChatGPT due to security concerns, despite having invested $13 billion into OpenAI and integrating its AI products into Microsoft's software portfolio.
- The risk of sensitive data being fed to Language Learning Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT was highlighted by the UK's GCHQ spy agency, and Samsung had previously banned its staff from using ChatGPT after a leak of classified information.
- Other companies like JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, and Apple also blocked internal use of ChatGPT. However, Microsoft stated that the internal restriction was made in error and encourages the use of Bing Chat Enterprise, which uses ChatGPT Enterprise and offers more robust privacy protections.
- OpenAI experienced a major outage due to a suspected distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack, with criminals linked to Russia claiming responsibility, although this is yet to be confirmed.