JAKARTA - Italy has decided to ban ChatGPT temporarily. Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots developed by OpenAI are prohibited on the grounds of violating state privacy laws.
Italian Data Protection Authority said it would maintain a ban until ChatGPT respects privacy. According to them, the chatbot does not have an age verification system and ChatGPT users are not given any information about collecting and using their data.
There is also no legal basis for data collection, which is said to be used to train ChatGPT. The Italian government said this violates state privacy laws.
The ban began when the Italian government learned about the problem of ChatGPT user data which was publicly exposed when the service experienced a decline as well as data breach on March 20.
OpenAI stated that the problem occurred due to a bug in the open source library, causing some users to see the title from the chat history of other active users.
"Maybe the first message from a conversation that was just created was seen in someone else's chat history if both users were active at the same time," said OpenAI.
Public trials show that the information provided by ChatGPT does not always match the factual circumstances, as quoted from PCGamer, Saturday, April 1.
Italy was the first country in the West to ban ChatGPT, but the chatbot was blocked in other countries first, including China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
ChatGPT is also facing challenges in the United States (US), where the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on ChatGPT.
CAIDP urges the FTC to stop implementing the GPT technology commercial further, and establish an independent assessment of GPT products before future implementation.
Along with other regulatory measures to control the rapid progress of AI distributions that are potentially dangerous and biased without government oversight.
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