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Italy’s privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over data breach concerns

Italy’s privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over data breach concerns


Italy’s privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over data breach concerns

Italy's privacy watchdog has banned ChatGPT, after raising concerns about a recent data breach and the legal basis for using personal data to train the popular chatbot.

The Italian Data Protection Authority described the move as atemporary measure "until ChatGPT respects privacy". The watchdog said it was imposing an "immediate temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users' data" by ChatGPT's owner, the San Francisco-based OpenAI.

OpenAI said on Friday it had disabled ChatGPT in Italy and that it complies with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

"We are committed to protecting people's privacy and we believe we comply with GDPR and other privacy laws," said an OpenAI spokesperson, who added that the company limits the use of personal data in systems such as ChatGPT.

"We actively work to reduce personal data in training our AI systems like ChatGPT because we want our AI to learn about the world, not about private individuals."

ChatGPT has been a sensation since its launch last November due to its ability to generate plausible-sounding responses to questions, as well as creating an array of content including poems, academic essays and summaries of lengthy documents when prompted by users.

It is powered by a groundbreaking artificial intelligence system that is trained on a vast amount of information culled from the internet.

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