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FILE – The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT in Boston March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Italy temporarily banned the program last month because its data-gathering broke privacy laws
Germany is joining other European countries in investigating the use of personal data by popular AI chatbot ChatGPT and demanding answers from its US creator OpenAI, a regulator said on Monday.
Regional data protection authorities in Europe’s top economy have drawn up a questionnaire for OpenAI and are expected to respond by June 11, said Marit Hansen, commissioner for the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.
“We want to know if the data security impact assessment has been done and if the data security risks are under control,” Hansen told AFP.
“We are seeking information from OpenAI regarding issues that stem from the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).”
German authorities want to verify whether OpenAI adequately informs people whose data is used by ChatGPT that they have “rights, for example to access their data, the right” under EU law. to do or even to remove,” she said.
“It is also necessary to clarify how these rights can be exercised”, he said, adding that regulators were particularly concerned about the processing of data relating to minors.
“As soon as personal data of European citizens is processed, European data protection law must be respected,” she said.
Italy temporarily banned the program last month because its data-gathering broke privacy laws. It has since asked OpenAI to adjust its chatbot so that it can come back online in the country at the end of April.
France’s regulator said earlier this month that it had launched a formal process after receiving five complaints, while Spain’s AEPD data protection agency also said it had opened an investigation into the software and its US owner.
The European Union’s central data regulator has set up a task force to help countries harmonize their policies and address privacy concerns.
ChatGPT can generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts, and has proven itself capable of passing some of the toughest tests.
But it has been dogged by concerns that its brilliance could lead to widespread cheating in schools, supercharge disruption on the Web and replace human workers.
And since the chatbot can only function when it’s trained on huge datasets, concerns are being raised about where OpenAI gets its data and how that information is handled.
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