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Samsung Electronics bans employees from using ChatGPT

The National (Bloomberg report), 2023

Read on October 17, 2026

What it is: A news report, dated May 2, 2023, that republishes Bloomberg's account of Samsung's internal memo. It includes the company's reasons for restricting generative AI and the result of an internal survey.
How much weight it carries: Republished Bloomberg reporting based on a memo that Bloomberg reviewed. The survey numbers come from the memo as reported, and Samsung did not publish the survey itself.

Facts taken from this source

In an internal survey conducted in April 2023, Samsung found that 65 percent of respondents believed generative AI services pose a security risk.
“said that 65 per cent of respondents believe that such services pose a security risk.” (Paragraph on the internal survey)
Samsung's memo said the company was concerned that data sent to AI platforms such as Google Bard and Bing is stored on external servers, where it is hard to retrieve and delete.
“The company is concerned that data transmitted to such AI platforms including Google Bard and Bing is stored on external servers, making it difficult to retrieve and delete” (Paragraph on the company's concern)