OpenAI’s ChatGPT is back in Italy after being forced to be transparent – The popular interactive artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT can now offer its services in Italy again. This is because the country’s data security agency, Garante, was worried about the privacy of its users.
The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) of the European Union were thought to have been broken by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was briefly banned in Italy on March 31.
On April 29, exactly 29 days after the ban, the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, said that ChatGPT was “available in Italy again” without saying what the company had done to meet the transparency requirements of the Italian authority.
we’re excited chatgpt is available in 🇮🇹 again!
— Sam Altman (@sama) April 28, 2023
When the ban was lifted, ChatGPT had to, among other things, explain how it handled data and put in place steps to make sure users were of the right age. The Italian authority said that the temporary ban was put in place because ChatGPT had a data breach on March 20.
At first, the sudden ban raised the possibility of a wave of AI regulations. However, ChatGPT’s readiness to quickly comply with local authorities is seen as a positive move by its users around the world.
We took ChatGPT offline Monday to fix a bug in an open source library that allowed some users to see titles from other users’ chat history. Our investigation has also found that 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus users might have had personal data revealed to another user. 1/2
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 24, 2023
Legislators in the European Union are working on a new bill to keep track of advances in AI.
According to Cointelegraph, the goal of the bill is to put AI tools into groups based on how dangerous they are thought to be. The amount of risk ranges from low to intolerable. According to the bill, high-risk tools won’t be completely banned, but they will have to be more open about what they do.
If the bill is passed into law, tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney that use copyrighted materials to train AI will have to tell people about it.
