Italy's data privacy watchdog hopes OpenAI will revise ChatGPT, allowing it to return online in the country
ChatGPT caused a global sensation when it was released last year for generating essays, songs, exams and even news articles from brief prompts.
"We are ready to reopen ChatGPT on April 30, if there is a willingness on the part of OpenAI to take useful steps," Data Protection Authority chief Pasquale Stanzione told the Corriere della Sera daily on Tuesday.Italy's watchdog temporarily blocked ChatGPT at the end of March over data privacy concerns, becoming the first Western country to take action against the popular artificial intelligence chatbot.
Users should be "clearly informed that their data is being used for a specific purpose, the training of the algorithm", he added.ChatGPT caused a global sensation when it was released last year for generating essays, songs, exams and even news articles from brief prompts. Italy's data protection watchdog had said that US firm OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, had no legal basis to justify the mass collection and storage of personal data for training the algorithms underlying the operation of the platform.It said wrong answers given by the chatbot were not being handled properly and accused the firm of exposing children to "absolutely unsuitable answers".
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