The Controversy Surrounding ChatGPT's Privacy Issues Spreads Across Europe

Italy's data regulator has issued a temporary emergency decision demanding OpenAI stop using the personal information of millions of Italians that's included in its training data for ChatGPT, a generative text system. The action is the first taken against ChatGPT by a Western regulator and highlights privacy tensions around the creation of giant generative AI models, which are often trained on vast swathes of internet data. GDPR rules protect the data of more than 400 million people across the continent, and OpenAI's privacy policy doesn't directly mention its legal reasons for using people's personal information in training data.