Companies have started banning ChatGPT for fear of leaks. Microsoft has the solution: Bing Chat Enterprise

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Bard, Bing Chat, and ChatGPT are often not good at keeping secrets. These are chatbots that have been designed to learn from the user conversations. These can be manually collected, stored, and even reviewed to train new AI models.

Certainly this is a terrifying scenario for any company that claims to keep secrets of any kind. Suppose an employee asks one of the above tools to check a piece of code or a confidential document for errors. The text in question could end up being leaked.

Pay to prevent leaks

And the first problems related to this privacy issue have already started to appear. Without going any further, Samsung recently banned the use of ChatGPT among their employeesand other companies such as Bank of America and Citigroup adopted a path of similar characteristics in response to the aforementioned concern.

From OpenAI they did not take long to react when implementing a privacy setting to protect conversations and a future business plan known as ChatGPT Business. Now it’s Microsoft’s turn, just launched Bing Chat Enterprise. It is an alternative to the classic Bing Chat, but clearly oriented towards business users who want to protect their data.

Those from Redmond claim that this new tool has been designed to work with business data protection. “With Bing Chat Enterprise, user and business data are protected and will not leak outside of the organization. They also make another set of privacy promises about the service.

They ensure that everything sent to their servers “remains protected” and that the data is not saved. They also promise that they will not have visual access to the information, that no one will be able to see the data, and that it will not be used to train artificial intelligence models. All this, certainly, will not be free, it will have to be paid for.

For some people, the reality of having to pay to have privacy may be uncomfortable, but this is precisely where the famous “if you don’t pay for the product, it’s because you are the product” that we have seen so much throughout hundreds of services of large technology corporations on the Internet.

Bing Chat Enterprise will be included in Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium subscriptions. Microsoft is also planning to offer access as a separate subscription for $5 per month in the future.

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