popular interactive artificial intelligence (AI) Chatbot, ChatGPT, has had its ban on providing services in Italy lifted after addressing privacy concerns raised by the country's data protection agency, Garante.
On March 31st, OpenAI's ChatGPT was temporarily banned in Italy after the watchdog suspected the AI chatbot was violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Precisely 29 days after the ban, on April 29, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT was “available in Italy again” without disclosing steps taken by the company to comply with the Italian regulator's transparency demands.
We are excited that chatgpt is available again!
—Sam Altman (@sama) April 28, 2023
The reversal of the ban required ChatGPT to disclose its data processing practices and implement age control measures, among other legal requirements. As the Italian regulator highlighted, the temporary ban came in response to a recent data breach suffered by ChatGPT on March 20.
We took ChatGPT offline on Monday to fix a bug in an open source library that allowed some users to view titles from other users' chat history. Our research also found that 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus users could have disclosed their personal data to another user. 1/2
—OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 24, 2023
While the abrupt ban initially raised possibilities about a wave of AI regulations, ChatGPT's willingness to quickly comply with local authorities is seen as an overall positive move, widely welcomed by its users globally.
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Lawmakers in the European Union are working on a new bill to monitor AI developments.
As Cointelegraph reported, the bill aims to rank AI tools based on perceived risk levels based on your ability. Risk levels vary from minimal to unacceptable. Under the bill, high-risk tools will not be banned outright, but will be subject to more stringent transparency requirements.
If signed into law, generative AI tools, including ChatGPT and Midjourney, will be subject to disclosure of use of copyrighted materials in AI training.
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