Italy Privacy Regulator Opens Probe on OpenAI Over ChatGPT
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Italian privacy regulators said Friday that they launched a probe on OpenAI Inc. concerning its ChatGPT tool and techniques used to gather users’ personal data.
The country’s data protection authority in a statement cited a lack of a legal basis to justify pooling and storing user data to train the algorithms used on ChatGPT. The regulator temporarily suspended data gathering on the platform, which Italian users can’t currently access. It also noted its concerns on a lack of filters to assure that users are over 13 years old.