ChatGPT Banned by Italian Authority Due to OpenAI's Lack of Legal Basis for Data Collection and Age Verification
March 31, 2023
The Italian Data Protection Authority alleged OpenAI lacked a justifiable legal basis for personal data collection and processing which facilitate training of ChatGPT, and lacked age-verification mechanism preventing exposure of the chatbot's inappropriate answers to children, prompting its ban.
- Alleged deployer
- openai
- Alleged developer
- openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- italian-children, italian-minors
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/513
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