{"id":42890,"date":"2023-11-13T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=42890"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:57:56","slug":"microsoft-blocks-employee-access-to-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-blocks-employee-access-to-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft blocks employee access to ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft temporarily restricted its employees from using the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, a company in which Microsoft has invested over $13 billion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision, citing &#8220;security and data concerns,&#8221; raised eyebrows within the tech industry, given the close ties between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s internal website reportedly informed employees that several AI tools, including ChatGPT, were no longer available for their use due to security concerns. The restriction, however, was short-lived. Following CNBC&#8217;s report on the matter, Microsoft quickly reinstated ChatGPT access, acknowledging an error in the initial decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We restored service shortly after we identified our error,&#8221; a Microsoft spokesperson stated. &#8220;As we said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-microsoft-temporarily-blocked-chatgpt-from-employees-on-thursday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZDNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft temporarily restricted its employees from using the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, a company in which Microsoft has invested over $13 billion.\u00a0 The decision, citing &#8220;security and data concerns,&#8221; raised eyebrows within the tech industry, given the close ties between the two companies. Microsoft&#8217;s internal website reportedly informed employees that several AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[762],"class_list":["post-42890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-chatgpt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42892,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42890\/revisions\/42892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}