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No sooner did ChatGPT and the topic of generative artificial intelligence (AI) go mainstream than every enterprise business technology leader started asking the same question. Is it safe?

Artificial intelligence is the hottest topic in tech today. AI algorithms are capable of breaking down massive amounts of data in the blink of an eye and have the potential to help us all lead healthier, happier lives. The power of machine learning means that AI-integrated telehealth services are on the rise, too. Almost every progressive provider today uses some amount of AI to track patients’ health data, schedule appointments, or automatically order medicine.

The Insider reported that an apparently AI-generated photo faking an explosion near the Pentagon in D.C. went viral. The Arlington Police Department confirmed that the image and accompanying reports were fake. But when the news was shared by a reputable Twitter account on Monday, the market briefly dipped. The photo was spread by dozens of accounts on social media, including RT, a Russian state-media Twitter account with more than 3 million followers — but the post has since been deleted.

Since CrowdStrike’s founding in 2011, we have pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity to solve our customers’ most pressing challenges. Our application of AI has fit into three practical categories.

As a natural language processing model, ChatGPT - and other similar machine learning-based language models - is trained on huge amounts of textual data. Processing all this data, ChatGPT can produce written responses that sound like they come from a real human being. ChatGPT learns from the data it ingests. If this information includes your sensitive business data, then sharing it with ChatGPT could potentially be risky and lead to cybersecurity concerns.