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ChatGPT's producer, OpenAI, plans to present measures to remedy the problems that led to the chatbot's ban in Italy in the last week of March, Italian data protection agency Garante said.
OpenAI, backed by Microsoft Corp, took ChatGPT offline in Italy after the Garante agency temporarily restricted it and began an investigation into an alleged violation of privacy rules.
In March, the agency accused OpenAI of failing to verify the age of ChatGPT users and "the absence of any legal basis to justify the massive collection and storage of personal data."
On Thursday, April 6, she said she had no intention of curbing the development of AI, but reiterated the importance of respecting rules to protect the personal data of Italian and European citizens.
In a video conference late Wednesday, April 5, featuring CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI pledged to be more transparent about how it handles user data and verifies users' ages, Garante reported.
The company said it would send Garante a document about the steps it has taken to respond to its requests.
The data authority said it would evaluate the proposals made by OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter said it would likely take several days to evaluate the contents of the letter.
On Thursday, April 6, the company published a blog post titled "Our Approach to AI Safety," in which it said it is working to develop "nuanced policies against behaviors that pose a real risk to people."
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"We don't use data to sell our services, advertise or profile people. We use data to make our models more useful to people. ChatGPT, for example, gets better by training more on the conversations people have with it." |
The company said it removes personal information from its datasets whenever possible, refines its models to reject prompts from users requesting such information, and will respond to individual requests to remove their data from its systems.
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"While some of our training data includes personal information available on the public internet, we want our models to learn about the world, not private individuals." |
The ban in Italy has sparked the interest of other privacy regulators in Europe, who are considering the need for stronger measures against chatbots and coordinating those actions.
