In the spring of 2023, Samsung's semiconductor division gave engineers access to ChatGPT to help with their work. Within weeks, three separate leaks: an engineer pasted proprietary source code into the chatbot to check it for errors; another pasted code seeking optimization; a third uploaded a recording of an internal meeting and asked for notes.
Everything pasted into ChatGPT left Samsung's control - sent to external servers, potentially retained for model training, with no way to claw it back. Samsung's response was blunt: it banned generative AI tools on company devices and networks, and started building an internal AI service of its own. Employees who broke the policy, it said, could be fired.
Samsung was not careless or behind the curve - it was one of the most sophisticated technology companies on earth, and its own engineers still handed secrets to a chatbot because it was convenient. That is the lesson: the leak is never malicious. It is helpful, well-meaning, and one paste away.
The Leak - the course's opening module rebuilds the Samsung incident as an interactive scenario: the tempting paste, the pressure to ship, and the policy that makes the safe choice the easy one.
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