The Finance Ministry of India has asked its employees to avoid using AI equipment, including chat and lampsac, citing the risks generated for government documents and data confidentiality, an internal department’s advisor shown. .
Countries such as Australia and Italy have imposed similar restrictions on the use of Deepsac, citing data security risks. Consultant reports came to light on social media on Tuesday, before a scheduled visit to India by OpenaiI chief Sam Altman, when he is also due to meeting the IT minister.
“It has been determined that AI tools and AI apps in office computer and equipment (such as chat, deepsek etc.) (government) raise the risk for the privacy of data and documents,” said that the Indian Finance Ministry said that January Said. 29.
Representatives of the Ministry of Finance of India, Chatgpt-Parent Openai and Deepsek did not immediately respond to the remarks requests.
Three Finance Ministry officials said the note was real and the note was issued internal this week.
Reuters could not immediately confirm whether equal instructions have been issued for other Indian ministries.
OpenaiI is facing heat in India due to the battle of high-profile copyright violations with the country’s top media houses, and the court filing said that there are no servers in the country and Indian courts did not have the matter Should listen.
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