The One-Way Door: How Samsung Lost Its Source Code to a Machine That Cannot Forget
Within roughly twenty days of letting its semiconductor engineers use ChatGPT, Samsung suffered three separate leaks of crown-jewel intellectual property, source code, defect-detection logic, and a recorded internal meeting, into an external system that learns from what it is given. The most technically capable company on earth then did something revealing: it did not try to recover the data. It could not. It banned the tool. This is the forensic anatomy of a governance failure whose defining feature is that, by the time anyone noticed, every remedy except prohibition was already too late.