Italy’s data protection authority has issued a temporary ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT over data privacy concerns.
The privacy regulator said the chatbot has improperly collected and
stored information and ordered OpenAI to suspend processing the data of
Italian users.
- The move comes days
after several tech leaders, including Elon Musk, called for a six-month
pause on all training of artificial intelligence systems more powerful
than OpenAI’s GPT-4.
- The signed open letter stressed that AI
systems with human-competitive intelligence could pose profound risks to
society and humanity.
- Italy’s privacy regulator said OpenAI
had no legal basis for using the data it had amassed to train the
algorithms that power its ChatGPT platform.
- The regulator said it had opened an inquiry into OpenAI.
- The company has 20 days to show what steps it is taking to comply with European Union privacy rules or risk fines.
