Italy has announced it will temporarily block OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT from processing Italian users' data until the company "respects privacy".
The Italian Data Protection Authority, also known as Garante, said it was investigating potential breaches of the EU's data protection regulation by the popular AI chatbot.
Garante accused the company of failing to check that its users were aged 13 and above. It argued that this “exposes children to receiving responses that are absolutely inappropriate to their age and awareness.”
The Italian watchdog also stated ChatGPT has an "absence of any legal basis that justifies the massive collection and storage of personal data" to "train" the chatbot.
In response, US-based OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT for Italian users. The company also stated it works “to reduce personal data in training our AI systems like ChatGPT because we want our AI to learn about the world, not about...