Italy temporarily stopped ChatGPT from operating in the country on Friday over unlawful data collection and problems in its age verification system. It launched a legal inquiry into the case.
The ban came from Italy’s Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data agency (GPDP), naming Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the developer and managing company of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, according to a press release from the agency. ChatGPT went offline in Italy as a result.
More specifically, regarding the data collection, the Italian authority, also known as Garante, said that ChatGPT presents no information to its user whose data is collected by OpenAI. “More importantly, there appears to be no legal basis underpinning the massive collection and processing of personal data in order to ‘train’ the algorithms on which the platform relies.”…