After the temporary blocking of the artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ChatGPT in Italy, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced a Working group to deal with the program to build. In doing so, she wants to promote cooperation and “exchange information about possible enforcement measures by the data protection authorities,” said the institution responsible for the uniform application of data protection regulations on Thursday.
Legal basis required for data collection
Last week, Italy’s national data protection authority blocked ChatGPT. The company behind the chatbot, OpenAIwon’t be re-admitted until they have a series of measures take action, including providing a legal basis for data collection. The Italian data protection authority criticizes that OpenAI has not adhered to data protection and youth protection rules.
Spain and France are following suit
The Spanish data protection authority AEPD declared on Thursday, a Investigation of the software and OpenAI. On the same day, the French data protection supervisory authority CNIL announced that after five complaints formal procedure initiated. A deputy had due fictitious information on his CV lawsuit filed.
German federal states skeptical
ChatGPT creates texts with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Users can specify individual commands or sentences, which the system then supplements independently using huge amounts of data from the Internet. Critics object that it is unclear where ChatGPT and its competitors get their data from and how they dealt with it.
The data protection authorities of the German federal states had declared at the beginning of April that possible violations against the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through the ChatGPT application test. However, there were no formal complaints by then.
