Security Voices

The breakaway success of ChatGPT is hiding an important fact and an even bigger problem. The next wave of generative AI will not be built by trawling the Internet but by mining hordes of proprietary data that have been piling up for years inside organizations. While Elon Musk and Reddit may breathe a sigh of relief, this ushers in a new set of concerns that go well beyond prompt injections and AI hallucinations. Who is responsible for making sure our private data doesn’t get used as training data? And what happens if it does? Do they even know what’s in the data to begin with?We tagged in data engineering expert Josh Wills and security veteran Mike Sabbota of Amazon Prime Video to go past the headlines and into what it takes to safely harness the vast oceans of data they’ve been responsible for in the past and present. Foundational questions like “who is responsible for data hygiene?” and “what is data governance?” may not be nearly as sexy as tricking AI into saying it wants to destroy humanity but they argu