World News | ChatGPT may return to Italy if OpenAI follows the rules

ROME, April 12 (AP) – ChatGPT could soon return to Italy if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators that have temporarily banned the artificial intelligence software over privacy concerns.

Italy’s data protection agency outlined Wednesday that OpenAI has until April 30 to meet a series of requirements in order to lift its ban on AI chatbots.

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The regulator last month ordered the company to temporarily stop processing personal information of Italian users while it investigates a possible data breach. The agency said it did not want to hinder the development of artificial intelligence, but stressed the importance of complying with the EU’s strict data privacy rules.

OpenAI has responded by proposing remedies to ease concerns, but did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

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Concerns about the AI ​​boom are growing, with other countries ranging from France to Canada investigating or paying close attention to so-called generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT. The chatbot was “trained” on vast amounts of data, including digital books and online writing, and was able to generate text that mimics the style of human writing.

Under the Italian measure, OpenAI must publish information on its website about how and why it processes personal information of users and non-users, and provide options to correct or delete that data.

The regulator said the company would have to rely on consent or a “legitimate interest” to use personal data to train ChatGPT’s algorithms.

Italian regulators have questioned whether OpenAI has a legal basis for collecting large amounts of data to teach its ChatGPT algorithm, and have raised concerns that the system sometimes generates false information about individuals.

San Francisco-based OpenAI also has until May 15 to run a radio, television, newspaper and internet campaign about how it uses personal data to train its algorithms, Italian regulators said.

There is also a need to verify the user’s age and have a system in place to filter out teens under the age of 13 and between the ages of 13 and 18 without parental consent.

“Only in this case, will the Italian SA (the regulator) lift its order imposing temporary restrictions on the processing of Italian user data…so that ChatGPT will again be available from Italy,” the regulator said on its website . (Associated Press)

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