This right here, or at least the thought of this, is why in the not so far future, businesses can't (won't?) be using these LLMs services.

You cannot risk companies like Anthropic, OpenAI or their business partners like Microsoft having unfettered access to proprietary data on your company/businesses.

It it likely that they or rogue employees will use the information to make a profit? It's pure speculation, but I'd say more than likely, and we will never hear about it or read it on the news unless there's whistleblowers in high enough positions to know about it.

Assuming you and your employees aren't careful with what data you share, they will have intimate knowledge about your company from files and conversations logs. Likely personal user data too which they'll gladly create databases to link to and create extensive profiles on you, your employees and your businesses.

It's not far-fetched to see them leveraging insider information shared with LLMs to play the stock market, leveraging data against competing businesses in other markets they might want to explore, and likely a bunch of other things that are escaping me right now as I write this.

At the end of the day it's on those people for sharing such sensitive data, but it's not like these AI companies are innocent and won't gladly exploit every little byte of data without telling you, we know it happens.

> This right here, or at least the thought of this, is why in the not so far future, businesses can't (won't?) be using these LLMs services.

Or they can simply turn off the setting that allows OpenAI to use their chats to improve the model. Or they can use the API where it is off by default.. If the advantage of using OpenAI models will be significant enough for the business in question, these are the options.

Its not "in the future", its already here, right now. Sensitive IP gets processed on rented or local GPUs running open weight models. Sometimes its required due to data privacy laws, sometimes its because the people running those shops are not trusting OpenAI/Anthropic ZDR policies being observed. Normal, boring, US and EU-domiciled enterprises do this on a regular basis, and there is an industry of companies helping said boring companies set things up.

It is even worse. Just them knowing or having an inkling that someone is close to achieving a solution might be enough for them to spawn a team of thousands of agents and outrun you.

>You cannot risk companies like Anthropic, OpenAI or their business partners like Microsoft having unfettered access to proprietary data on your company/businesses.

You do realize that businesses that have contracts with them can specify if they want their data used for training or not right?