hard setback Italy To ChatGPT. The Italian data protection authority notified the initiative this Monday OpenAIFunded by Microsoft and popular application It violates European law privacy.
The Italian regulator, known as Garante, reached this conclusion after almost a year of investigations. At the end of March last year, the agency blocked access to the popular conversational assistant “effective immediately.” The blockade was short-lived, but the investigation continued. It has now been concluded that there are elements that “may constitute one or more unlawful acts”. Data protection.
ChatGPT uses: artificial intelligence (AI) responding to user requests, having the ability to generate any text. This is possible because it ‘learns’ from the data it extracts Internet. But most of them are protected by copyright, an infringement that has sparked the displeasure of a wide range of artists and creators.
The Italian authority now gives OpenAI a period of 30 days to submit its defense regarding its alleged violation of the general regulation. Data protection (GDPR), the leading European privacy regulation. If this breach is confirmed, the new company led by Sam Altman could face fines of up to 4% of its global turnover.