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This hits well > He estimates that his increased productivity is equivalent to the company getting a third of an additional person working for free. > He's no

This hits well > He estimates that his increased productivity is equivalent to the company getting a third of an additional person working for free. > He's not sure why the company has banned external AI. "I think it's a control thing," he says. "Companies want to have a say in what tools their employees use. It's a new frontier of IT and they just want to be conservative."

TuringNYC 2y ago
>> It's a new frontier of IT and they just want to be conservative." Also it could potentially legally encumber your work, esp in creative fields where output is published. There is real liability.
dijksterhuis 2y ago
as someone who spent several years attacking ML models for security research, so does this > Around 30% of the applications Harmonic Security has seen being used train using information entered by the user. > That means the user's information becomes part of the AI tool and could be output to other users in the future. > … Firms will be concerned about their data being stored in AI services they have no control over, no awareness of, and which may be vulnerable to data breaches.
atoav 2y ago
> He's not sure why the company has banned external AI. "I think it's a control thing," he says. "Companies want to have a say in what tools their employees use. It's a new frontier of IT and they just want to be conservative." Yeah it is a real MIRACLE why companies don't want their employees to input their sensitive company data into some online form that they may or may not trust. We will likely never know what their real reasoning is.. /s
- orev 2y ago
  I think you mean MYSTERY.
  - atoav 2y ago
    Probably, but then again my first languages word which I would have chosen here directly translates to miracle, not to mystery.
tbrownaw 2y ago
> He's not sure why the company has banned external AI. "I think it's a control thing," he says. They involve sending company IP to a third party to do whatever they want with it. Or depending on your industry and job function, instead of your company's IP it might be other people's data and have contractual or even statutory rules about what you can do with it.

TuringNYC 2y ago

>> It's a new frontier of IT and they just want to be conservative." Also it could potentially legally encumber your work, esp in creative fields where output is published. There is real liability.

dijksterhuis 2y ago

as someone who spent several years attacking ML models for security research, so does this > Around 30% of the applications Harmonic Security has seen being used train using information entered by the user. > That means the user's information becomes part of the AI tool and could be output to other users in the future. > … Firms will be concerned about their data being stored in AI services they have no control over, no awareness of, and which may be vulnerable to data breaches.

atoav 2y ago

> He's not sure why the company has banned external AI. "I think it's a control thing," he says. "Companies want to have a say in what tools their employees use. It's a new frontier of IT and they just want to be conservative." Yeah it is a real MIRACLE why companies don't want their employees to input their sensitive company data into some online form that they may or may not trust. We will likely never know what their real reasoning is.. /s

orev 2y ago
I think you mean MYSTERY.
- atoav 2y ago
  Probably, but then again my first languages word which I would have chosen here directly translates to miracle, not to mystery.

tbrownaw 2y ago

> He's not sure why the company has banned external AI. "I think it's a control thing," he says. They involve sending company IP to a third party to do whatever they want with it. Or depending on your industry and job function, instead of your company's IP it might be other people's data and have contractual or even statutory rules about what you can do with it.