Shadow AI: What Your Team Is Already Pasting Into ChatGPT

Short summary

Shadow AI—employees pasting PII, secrets, proprietary code, and client-confidential data into ChatGPT—is rampant and hard to stop because it's driven by productivity, not malice. Bans and blocking proxies fail because people route around them. The effective approach combines a compliant in-boundary AI path, a human-readable usage policy, and detection scanning for PII, secrets, and code before data reaches third-party models.

• •Shadow AI leaks PII, API keys, proprietary code, and client-confidential docs into public LLMs
• •Bans and blocking proxies fail because employees route around them for productivity
• •Effective governance requires approved AI paths, clear policies, and detection scanning

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