Microsoft has banned employees from using AI tools as the company aims to prevent its competitors from gaining access to the data of its employees. Owing to concerns regarding security and data, a number of AI tools have been restricted from employee usage.

Microsoft has banned employees from using AI tools

Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in AI industry but the company is curious about its privacy due to which Microsoft has banned employees from using AI tools of various companies like openai chatgpt, perplexity, Gemini etc

Microsoft has banned employees from using Perplexity AI chatbot

It has been reported that Microsoft is preventing its employees from accessing Perplexity AI’s chatbot on their devices. The company is a major user of Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service.

Perplexity ai provides a distinctive chatbot experience by operating as a conversational search engine that delivers responses to inquiries using natural language and predictive text.

Tech companies are increasingly limiting employee access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and this is the most recent example of this trend.

Microsoft has banned employees from using  AI tools: Gemini

Microsoft has also restricted employee access to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

Employee devices are strictly prohibited from utilizing any rival AI tools, including Google’s Gemini, as per Microsoft’s regulations.

This step is taken by the Microsoft due to cybersecurity as the company want to secure data of its employees.

Microsoft has banned employees from using Chatgpt

Last year in November Microsoft instructed to its employees to not use OpenAI tool Chatgpt. According to reports the company served a notice on its internal website to not use AI tools due to security issues.

Later the company allowed employees to use Chatgpt. Microsoft has banned employees from using AI tools due to protection of data.

Similar measures have been adopted by various other tech companies. Specifically, Amazon and Samsung have imposed restrictions on their employees, preventing them from utilizing AI tools. This precautionary step is taken to address concerns about the potential misuse of sensitive data entered by employees into these tools. The decision made by these companies highlights the persisting worries surrounding AI and data security.