Chinanews.com, April 4 (Zhongxin Finance, Peng Jingru) From the global explosion to being "contained" by many countries, ChatGPT took only two months. According to foreign media reports, recently, Germany's Federal Data Protection Commissioner Ulrich Kelber said that Germany may follow in Italy's footsteps and "block" ChatGPT due to data security issues.

Italy took the lead, and many European countries followed

On March 3, local time, the Italian Personal Data Protection Agency announced that it will ban the use of ChatGPT from now on, restrict OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, from processing Italian user information, and begin an investigation.

The Italian Personal Data Protection Agency believes that on March 3, the ChatGPT platform experienced a loss of user conversation data and payment information for payment services. The platform does not inform about the collection and processing of user information, and lacks a legal basis for the collection and storage of personal information in large quantities.

The agency also said that while OpenAI's terms claim that the ChatGPT service is intended for users over the age of 13, the platform lacks a mechanism to verify the age of users.

Screenshot of the OpenAI website.

The Italian Personal Data Protection Agency requires OpenAI to respond to the agency's concerns within 20 days or face a fine of up to 2000 million euros or 4% of the company's annual global turnover.

After Italy issued the first "ban" on ChatGPT, many countries began to consider following Italy and "containing" ChatGPT.

According to the official website of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) on the 4th, OPC announced that it will investigate OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, involving allegations that "OpenAI collects, uses and discloses personal information without consent".

In addition, privacy regulators in France and Ireland have contacted the Italian regulator to learn more about the basis for the ban. A spokesperson for the Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) said: "We are following up with the Italian regulator and will coordinate the matter with the EU data protection authority. ”

ChatGPT self-defense: disabling is not necessarily the optimal solution

For the reaction of many European countries, when asked for the opinion of ChatGPT, China News Finance gave its own attitude: Germany, Italy and other countries consider banning AI technologies such as ChatGPT, reflecting the concerns and concerns of these countries, but disabling AI technologies such as ChatGPT is not necessarily the optimal solution.

Screenshot of the conversation with ChatGPT.

In terms of countermeasures, ChatGPT's answer shows that it will take it seriously, actively communicate with relevant departments and stakeholders, fully cooperate with all parties to carry out relevant investigations and handling, and strive to improve the security and compliance of technology and protect user privacy and data security.

Screenshot of the conversation with CatGPT.

This coincides with the attitude of its development company, OpenAI. On April 4, local time, the official website of the Italian Personal Data Protection Agency announced that OpenAI and the agency held a meeting on the evening of the 6th, and OpenAI expressed its willingness to cooperate with the Italian Data Protection Authority to solve its concerns about data security.

OpenAI said it believes the company complies with personal data protection laws, but is also willing to work with the agency. In addition to enhancing transparency in the use of personal data, OpenAI will also strengthen mechanisms for the exercise of data subjects' rights and protection measures for children, and undertakes to provide the Italian authorities with a document explaining the measures to be taken by the 6th.

Italy's data protection authority said it would evaluate its previous proposed measures, including the order issued for OpenAI. The agency stressed that the purpose of the meeting was not to hinder the development of artificial intelligence and technological innovation, and reiterated the importance of complying with the regulations for the protection of personal data in Italy and Europe.

The growth dilemma of the "ChatGPTs"

"The relationship between data privacy security and technological development is a dynamic game process, and it is difficult to achieve a real balance between the two, but to achieve a spiral of gradual progress in mutual pull." Zhang Xiaorong, president of Deepin Science and Technology Research Institute, told the media.

According to Reuters on March 3, Tesla CEO and Twitter "head" Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives called for a moratorium on training AI systems that are more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-28 model for at least 4 months, citing the potential risks they pose to society and humans.

Duran, senior vice president of iFLYTEK, said that the rapid development of AI will indeed bring about unemployment, privacy infringement, information asymmetry and other problems, but it has played an important role in improving efficiency, improving medical capabilities, and improving the environment.

Duran also said that artificial intelligence training is difficult to stop, because different countries, companies, laboratories, etc. will compete for leading positions, so coordination and implementation on a global scale may face challenges.

The European Commission proposed the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in 2021 to protect citizens' data and privacy under emerging technologies.

At present, China's relevant departments have also issued many relevant standards. In June 2019, the National New Generation AI Governance Professional Committee released the "Principles of New Generation AI Governance - Developing Responsible AI", which proposed the framework and action guidelines for AI governance.

On April 4, the official website of the Ministry of Science and Technology released an announcement on the public solicitation of opinions on the Measures for the Review of Science and Technology Ethics (Trial). It is proposed that units engaged in scientific and technological activities such as life sciences, medicine, and artificial intelligence, whose research content involves sensitive areas of scientific and technological ethics, should establish a scientific and technological ethics (review) committee.

In the future, the wave of artificial intelligence will continue unceasingly, and the answer sheet for data security will not be completed. (End)