ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem

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Italy’s data regulator issued a temporary ban on OpenAI to stop the use of millions of Italians personal information—forcing AI to face its major flaw.

includes a section on privacy, which says its training data may include “publicly available personal information,” which comes from a number of sources. The paper says OpenAI takes steps to protect people’s privacy, including “fine-tuning” models to stop people asking for personal information and removing people’s information from training data “where feasible.”

“How to collect data lawfully for training data sets for use in everything from just regular algorithms to some really sophisticated AI is a critical issue that needs to be solved now, as we’re kind of on the tipping point for this sort of technology taking over,” says Jessica Lee, a partner at law firm Loeb and Loeb.—has the potential to be the first of many cases examining OpenAI’s data practices.

“There is this rot at the very foundations of the building blocks of this technology—and I think that’s going to be very hard to cure,” says Elizabeth Renieris, senior research associate at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI and. She points out that many data sets used for training machine learning systems have existed for years, and it is likely there were few privacy considerations when they were being put together.

“There’s this layering and this complex supply chain of how that data ultimately makes its way into something like GPT-4,” Renieris says. “There’s never really been any type of data protection by design or default.” In 2022, the creators of one widely used image database, which has helped trained AI models for a decade, suggested

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