Italy Blocks ChatGPT for Alleged Data Privacy Violations

Italy's data protection authority has ordered OpenAI to stop processing people's data locally, citing concerns that the company is breaching the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with its ChatGPT technology. The regulator has given OpenAI 20 days to respond to the order, backed up by the threat of significant penalties if it fails to comply. The GDPR applies whenever EU users' personal data is processed, and OpenAI's large language model has been crunching this kind of information. The regulator is also concerned about the risk of minors' data being processed by OpenAI.