Be careful with the documents you upload to ChatGPT

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Spotted via a contact on LinkedIn:

Be careful with the documents you upload to ChatGPT. :sob:

Have you ever uploaded a lengthy document to ChatGPT and asked it to help you sort through it?

Compile, extract, cluster, and whatnot?

Exactly, who hasn’t?

I just did that today, and after a couple of chats in which it extracted the information I needed, I asked it to “go back to the report” and complete a different task.

Surprise, surprise—the reply that came back was not only unrelated to the PDF I had previously uploaded but also contained sensitive information from an unknown PDF.
Like names and personal stories.

WHAT? :scream:

I asked where this “report” was coming from, and after admitting it made a mistake, ChatGPT proceeded to give me confidential details, this time from a random company’s M&A documents…

AGAIN! Nooooo! :sob:

Please be careful with the type of documents and information you upload; you never know when an “unintended error” will happen that leaks sensitive information about you or your company to a random person on the other side of the world. :flushed:

A screenshot of a conversation between a user and a support representative. The user asks, "Where did you get this report?" The support representative responds by acknowledging a mix-up where the description provided did not match the content of the user's uploaded document. The representative apologizes for mistakenly referencing details from other unrelated PDFs and reassures the user that there was no breach of confidentiality or access to other users' files. The representative emphasizes the importance of confidentiality and data security and offers to correctly review the user's document or discontinue the session if preferred.
A screenshot of a conversation between a user and a support representative. The user asks, "Where did you get this report?" The support representative responds by acknowledging a mix-up where the description provided did not match the content of the user's uploaded document. The representative apologizes for mistakenly referencing details from other unrelated PDFs and reassures the user that there was no breach of confidentiality or access to other users' files. The representative emphasizes the importance of confidentiality and data security and offers to correctly review the user's document or discontinue the session if preferred.800×999 123 KB

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Doesn’t ChatGPT have a warning for this ? If not, this should be common sense anyway. Uploading confidential and/or proprietary data could get you fired.

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Saw they posted that chatgpt said those weren’t real documents :sweat_smile:. Arguably that could be false

I wonder if companies will start monitoring this?

What their staff are using ChatGPT for and what files are they uploading to it :thinking:. Would they be allowed to?

It has that temporary chat feature now

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