In order to ensure that ChatGPT respects privacy, the Italian Data Protection Authority announced that it would briefly stop the business from processing the data of Italian users. The chatbot’s creator, American company OpenAI, announced late Friday night that it had disabled ChatGPT for Italian customers at the government’s request. The business stated that it hopes to make ChatGPT available once more shortly and that it believes its procedures meet with European privacy laws.
ChatGPT is Temporally Blocked in Italy.
According to Alp Toker, director of the advocacy group NetBlocks, which tracks internet access globally, Italy’s action is “the first nation-scale restriction of a mainstream AI platform.” While some public schools and universities around the world have already blocked ChatGPT from their local networks due to concerns about student plagiarism.
However, software applications from businesses that already have licences with OpenAI to use the same technology driving the chatbot, such as Microsoft’s Bing search engine, are unlikely to be affected by the limitation. The restriction only applies to the web version of ChatGPT, which is widely used as a writing assistant.
Due to the vast amount of digital books as well as online writings that these large language models, the AI systems that run these chatbots, have ingested, they are able to replicate human writing styles.
After discovering a bug that enabled some users to view the titles or subject lines of other users’ chat histories, OpenAI previously announced that it would have to take ChatGPT offline on March 20.
The company had stated that “our research additionally discovered that 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus users may have had sensitive information revealed to another user.” “We have contacted those who may have been impacted,” the statement reads. “We assume the number of users whose information was actually disclosed to someone else is incredibly low.”
It also mentioned that since there is no mechanism in place to confirm users’ ages, children may receive responses that are “completely unsuitable to their age and awareness.” As a response, OpenAI stated that it strives “to minimize personal data in developing our AI systems like ChatGPT since we want our AI to acquire knowledge about the world, not about private individuals.”
Sam Altman, the CEO of San Francisco-based OpenAI, revealed this week that he will travel to six continents in May to meet with users and coders and discuss the technology. This includes trips to Madrid, Munich, London, and Paris as well as a stop in Brussels, where European Union legislators have been negotiating extensive new regulations to restrict high-risk AI tools.
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