Italy's privacy regulator has ordered the ban of OpenAI's Chat GPT chatbot, accusing it of "illegal data collection and failure to regulate its use by minors."
The authority issued a statement on its official website on Friday, saying that the company collects a large amount of data without legal justification, to be used in training robot algorithms.
The statement pointed out that the company does not provide a mechanism to verify the ages of users, to ensure that minors do not enter, which often exposes them to answers that do not correspond to their age and degree of development of understanding.
The statement explained that the leak of ChatGPT data on March 20 revealed the data of a large number of users.
The authority concluded the statement by giving OpenAI 20 days to clarify the procedures followed to deal with the matter, otherwise it could be fined up to 20 million euros.
OpenAI is a Microsoft-backed nonprofit AI research organization founded in December 2015 to promote and develop risk-safe AI systems.
The decision sparked wide interaction across the platforms, with bloggers commenting that the great development of technologies with the inability of the regulatory authorities to keep pace with this development opens the door to many loopholes and problems, and the illegal exploitation of users at times.
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...#BigTech opened the floodgates while oversight & regulation are virtually non-existent. As if it was bad enough for companies to data mine users, they've added AI to assimilate data (inboxes, photos, thoughts) to exploit users further. #ChatGPT is nice BUT w/ boundaries. https://t.co/793baO994W
— bluebay700 (@bluebay700) April 1, 2023
I'm proud of my country this time. AI needs strict regulation. https://t.co/wT48nJVUwX
— Christian Curatolo (@chricuratolo) March 31, 2023
Many have called for these rules to be repeated in the entire world, where artificial intelligence technologies need to be controlled and set limits, to prevent their misuse.
Bravo! Current LLMs are the dictionary definition of privacy and copyright abuses. Regulators worldwide should take a note. https://t.co/1jzATYqLnB
— Jan Kaiser (@jankais3r@defcon.social) (@jankais3r) March 31, 2023
Two days ago, Elon Musk and a group of AI experts and industry executives called for a 6-month pause in developing training systems for OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4 model, noting in an open letter the potential risks to society and humanity.
This came after Europol joined those warning of ethical and legal concerns about advanced artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT, citing the potential for the system to be misused for phishing attempts, disinformation and cybercrime.
AI chatbots have seen a surge in recent months, following the announcement of the launch of ChatGPT, which proved very successful and drew attention to the current AI capabilities capable of doing many tasks.
ChatGPT, which attracted one million users shortly after its launch last November, has been used on multiple missions, from real estate consulting and tips on how to start a business to composing music, and success and failure have been his allies in his various missions.