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ChatGPT Off Limits to Wall Street

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Michael Roddan
· · Source: Bloomberg

Wall Street’s biggest banks are reminding staff not to use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot at work out of concern that doing so may inadvertently breach record keeping rules, Bloomberg reported on Friday. JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo, among others, have in recent days warned employees not to use unapproved third party software for work purposes, which includes...

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