Can’t: Be accessed in Italy
On March 31, 2023, Italian regulators temporarily banned ChatGPT from the country and promised to investigate OpenAI. The Italian Data Protection Authority said in a press release that the company had no legal basis to gather the vast amounts of personal data it used to train the AI chatbot. The agency accused OpenAI of violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s wide-scoped privacy law.
“Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources,” the letter stated. “Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one—not even their creators—can understand, predict, or reliably control.”
