TechCrunch Summary (2023-05-19 07AM)

Source: Apple reportedly limits internal use of AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot

Summary
Apple has restricted internal use of generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GitHub’s Copilot to prevent confidential data from ending up with competitors.

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🔒 Apple has restricted internal use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft-owned GitHub’s Copilot to prevent confidential data from ending up with competitors.

🗣️ The ban on chatbot ChatGPT at Apple for months was highlighted by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, coinciding with the official launch on iOS.

🚫 Samsung also banned employees using ChatGPT after reportedly registering three separate incidents of them feeding proprietary data to the AI model.

🏦 Several organizations including Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Walmart, and Verizon have also restricted their staff from accessing ChatGPT.

🧠 Apple is developing its own generative AI models and has job listings that suggest the company is on the hunt for generative AI talent; multiple teams in Apple, including the one working on Siri, are experimenting with language-generating AI, according to The New York Times.

Source: UK Court tosses class-action style health data misuse claim against Google DeepMind

Summary
A London court has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Google and its AI division, DeepMind, over the misuse of NHS patients’ medical records. The complainant had sought to bring a representative claim on behalf of approximately 1.6 million individuals whose medical records were passed to DeepMind without their knowledge or consent. The court dismissed the case on the grounds that it did not meet the bar for bringing a representative action, which requires a claim to be based on general circumstances that apply to the entire class rather than on individual circumstances, finding therefore that the claim would be bound to fail.

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💬 The complainant sought to bring a representative claim on behalf of 1.6 million individuals who had their medical records passed to Google’s AI firm, DeepMind, without consent.

🔍 The court decided the case did not meet the requirements for a representative action, concluding there was a “fundamental and inherent difficulty” in identifying a viable claim for any class members on the basis of common circumstances.

💸 The UK’s lack of a clear route for citizens to pursue class-action style privacy litigation over data misuse means there are very limited options to obtain redress for these harms.

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