{"id":518319,"date":"2023-12-04T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=518319"},"modified":"2023-12-05T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T10:40:19","slug":"amazon-q-ai-hallucinating-and-leaking-confidential-data-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/518319-amazon-q-ai-hallucinating-and-leaking-confidential-data-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon denies Q AI “hallucinating” and leaking confidential data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon has denied that its recently launched artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is suffering from “severe hallucinations and is leaking confidential data”, as reported by Platformer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The publication said that leaked internal company documents revealed that Amazon Q AI disclosed the locations of Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres, details on internal discount programmes, and unreleased features.<\/p>\n

The issue was supposedly serious enough to be marked as “sev 2”, warranting the need to page engineers at night and require working throughout the weekend to patch it.<\/p>\n

However, in response to Platformer’s questions, an Amazon spokesperson downplayed the severity of the issue.<\/p>\n

“Some employees are sharing feedback through internal channels and ticketing systems, which is standard practice at Amazon,” they said. “No security issue was identified as a result of that feedback.”<\/p>\n

“We appreciate all of the feedback we’ve already received and will continue to tune Q as it transitions from being a product in preview to being generally available.”<\/p>\n

They also subsequently denied that the chatbot had leaked any confidential information.<\/p>\n

During its unveiling last week, Amazon executives punted the tool as being more secure than consumer-grade software like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

In its current form, Q is aimed solely at enterprises and their developers. It can answer questions about AWS, edit source code, and cite sources.<\/p>\n

Amazon is likely hoping that Q will help it catch up to other major cloud providers \u2014 Google and Microsoft \u2014 when it comes to integrating AI into their services.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Amazon developed AI image generator for businesses<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the data reportedly leaked by the Amazon Q AI were the locations of Amazon Web Services data centres, details on internal discount programmes, and unreleased features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":518325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59409,723,91155,35793,35,87321],"class_list":["post-518319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-ai-chatbot","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-q","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-headline","tag-platformer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518595,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518319\/revisions\/518595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}