ROME: Italy said on Friday (Mar 31) it was temporarily blocking ChatGPT over data privacy concerns, the first western country to take such action against the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The country's Data Protection Authority said US firm OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, had no legal basis to
The Italian authority imposed a"temporary limitation of the processing of Italian user data" by OpenAI and said it had launched an investigation.
It said wrong answers given by the chatbot suggested data was not being handled properly, and accused the firm of exposing children to"absolutely unsuitable answers". Nello Cristianini, an AI academic from Bath university in Britain, said securing user data and enforcing age limits were easy to fix.
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