GOOD GUIDANCE FOR AI

The National Cyber Security Centre (“NCSC”) has issued guidance highlighting the following issues regarding the use of open AI tools such as Chat GPT:

• They can get things wrong and ‘hallucinate’ incorrect facts

• They can be biased, are often gullible (for example, in responding to leading questions)

• They require huge compute resources and vast data to train from scratch

• They can be coaxed into creating tox content and are prone to ‘injection attacks’

A common concern is whether the Large Language Model (LLM) will learn from queries and offer that information up to others. The NCSC notes that currently Chat GPT does not automatically add information from queries into its model. However, the query will be visible to the organisation providing the LLM, stored and likely used for developing the LLM at some point. For this reason it is important to read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy associated with Chat GPT and other LLMs to understand how you query data might be used. As a guide however, the NCSC recommends:

• Not to include sensitive information in queries to public LLMs

• Not to submit queries to public LLMs that would lead to issues if such queries were made public

There are undoubtedly risks involved with unfettered use of public LLMs, as

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outlined by the NCSC above, around quality, confidentiality and data protection. There are also issues around copyright in content potentially used by the LLMs, as it is difficult to get at their sources and understand on what basis the sources have been made available – be aware that even the most permissive of creative commons licences tend to come with some constraints around use.

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