The precautionary measure adopted as a matter of urgency by the Italian Data Protection Authority has turned into a querelle between two factions: those who believe that this is intended to block innovation and technology and those who argue that the protection of people’s rights and freedoms is superior to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
ChatGPT is a particular type of “Generative AI” or “Generative Artificial Intelligence”: a machine that can generate a new piece of information from a series of inputs given to it. The inputs consist of thousands of personal data collected in two stages: i) during training of the AI (with data collection already available online); ii) during use of the chatbot (where the user provides additional information).
The root cause of the querelle can be found in a bug, which a few days ago resulted in a computer security breach: excerpts of ChatGPT conversations of other users, as well as a range of other information (such as credit card data), were visible for about nine hours.
The objections raised by the Italian Garantor are: Read more
