AI Ate Your Data - What Happens To Your Company's Data When You Use Free Tools?

When one reads about AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard, the focus is largely on the outputs. We marvel at how rich the answers to questions can be and then scorn when it transpires the answers are not accurate (or complete fiction!) There hasn't been as much discussion about the data being used as the input.

This new generation of tools relies on very large datasets from which to learn and the focus is now turning to where those datasets are coming from. The creative industries are already making their objections heard such as in Getty Images' legal action objecting to Stability AI's use of their photo database for their image creation tool "Stability Diffusion" and the music industry are raising objections (with the notable exception of "Grimes") But what about documents and files that are not normally considered valuable in the copyright sense? Boring everyday business documents?