According to the agency and the corporation, the ChatGPT chatbot has been reinstated in Italy after OpenAI resolved concerns expressed by the country’s data protection body.
After the Italian data protection authority, designated as Garante, temporarily suspended the chatbot and opened an investigation into the artificial intelligence program’s alleged violation of privacy laws, OpenAI powered by Microsoft, banned ChatGPT in Italy this past month.
Garante had granted OpenAI till Sunday for it to alleviate its worries before permitting the chatbot to resume operations in the nation.
Garante claimed a month ago that ChatGPT didn’t have any legal justification for the huge collection and storage of users’ personal data required to train the chatbot.
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Garante had also charged OpenAI with failing to verify the legal age of ChatGPT users, who are required to be 13 or older. In response, OpenAI announced it will provide a tool to confirm the age of users in Italy at the time of registration.
The firm announced on Friday that it would make its privacy policy as well as input from users’ opt-out form more visible.
According to a company spokesperson, it will also make available an enhanced way for users in the European Union to take advantage of their privilege to protest its utilization of private information to train its models.
Individuals who wish to opt-out must fill out an elaborate form with their personal information, including any proof of data processing via pertinent prompts.
Garante expressed its appreciation for the measures made to balance technical advancement with adherence to human rights and expressed the hope that the firm would continue on this road toward achieving compliance with European data security standards.
Although ChatGPT’s swift growth has drawn the interest of lawmakers as well as regulators in multiple nations, Italy was the first Western European nation to restrict it.
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On Thursday, a panel of EU parliamentarians approved new regulations requiring companies using generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, to declare any copyrighted data used to create their systems.
The organization that unifies Europe’s national privacy regulators, the European Data Protection Board, established an investigation force on the chatbot previously this month in response to Garante’s concern regarding ChatGPT.
Garante stated that it will cooperate with the special task team and carry out its investigation into ChatGPT.
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