At the end of March, Italian authorities ordered OpenAI to completely shut down its AI service. The decision was made after a data breach of ChatGPT and GPT API customers. Italy then became the first Western country to reject OpenAI’s GPT products outright. Now the country is imposing an ultimatum on OpenAI.
A measure that could be difficult to respect
OpenAI, which continues to expand despite the controversy, faces a new challenge. Italian authorities have given the company until April 30 to make ChatGPT compliant with EU laws. The AI service will need to comply with local and GDPR privacy regulations. For AI experts, this task is almost impossible to achievedue to the complexity of the platform model architecture.
Experts explained that OpenAI’s models are trained from massive data obtained through the internet. These are grouped into training sets to create a paradigm called ” emergence “. In this paradigm, the models show their characteristics in a way unpredictable.
This means that it is rare for developers to find out exactly what the dataset contains. Moreover, the AI platform merges multiple data points to generate results. In this context, it is difficult for developers to extract or modify individual data elements.
A look back at what Italy blames OpenAI for
Authorities had issued an order to halt OpenAI’s activities. ” In its order, the Italian SA points out that no information is provided to users and data subjects whose data is collected by OpenAI “, they explained.
Also, the order found that the massive collection and processing of personal data with ChatGPT is not subject to any legal basis. However, the latter should exist for “ train the algorithms on which the platform relies “.
Now OpenAI must provide a legal basis for large-scale data collection, in order to become compliant in Italy. The company must also implement age verification measures. It’s worth pointing out that privacy issues don’t just affect the AI industry. They also affect crypto, and as proof, organizations are campaigning for privacy legislation to be imposed in the sector.
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