• ChatGPT and confidentiality

    ChatGPT and confidentiality

    No, you can’t trust ChatGPT with your data even if you trust OpenAI. Last week, I was asked a really important question in one of our Baobab AI ‘Introduction to Large Language Models’ workshops: “Can we put confidential data into ChatGPT”. The answer is “probably not”.  Not unless you do a few things first.  The reason for this Read more

  • Getting ChatGPT to tell the truth

    Getting ChatGPT to tell the truth

    The truth? ChatGPT can’t handle the truth!  But can you make it tell the truth? Can you make it give you an answer you can rely on? (Spoiler: Yes. And it’s not a prompt.  And we built it!) This is one of the most important discussions we have in our workshops around the effective use Read more

  • Bias and ChatGPT

    Bias and ChatGPT

    Should ChatGPT care that I am a woman? or Italian? Bias can be blatant and bias can be subtle.  OpenAI seems to have done a great job of removing much of the blatant bias that is rampant in its source data.  But it is very very difficult to fix biases weaved in to the statistical Read more

  • Policy > Ban

    Policy > Ban

    You don’t need a ChatGPT ban. You need a ChatGPT policy. I have heard of a number of companies banning their employees from using ChatGPT or making it inaccessible on company networks because of some very valid concerns over the reliability of its output and the security of data pushed into the prompts. This seems Read more