Canada investigates ChatGPT creation company

On April 4, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPCC) decided to open an investigation into the US-based company OpenAI, the entity behind ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that is attracting great attention around the world .

The OPCC said the investigation was launched after it received complaints about the collection, use and disclosure of personal information without consent. The OPCC did not provide details, but said it would make the results public once the investigation was complete.

Meanwhile, OPCC official Philippe Dufresne said AI and its impact on privacy are top of mind, stressing that the OPCC must stay ahead of “rapidly evolving technological advances.” The Canadian regulator’s move comes amid growing calls from experts for increased oversight of AI-powered technology.

ChatGPT has created a "tech fever" after its launch in November last year. This application uses text information already available on the network to answer difficult questions, write code, compose poems or write essays... Reports from multinational investment bank UBS show that as of March 2023, ChatGPT has attracted about 150 million users, thereby becoming the application with the fastest growing number of users in history.

However, many countries around the world such as the US, Australia, Germany... are concerned about the security of this application. Last week, Italy's privacy watchdog also banned ChatGPT while investigating the application's suspected violation of European data rules...

Meanwhile, the European police agency Europol has warned that criminals are ready to exploit AI such as conversation bots to commit fraud and other online crimes. Last week, billionaire Elon Musk, who founded OpenAI but is no longer a board member, and hundreds of global experts called for a six-month pause in research on AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, the latest version of ChatGPT, citing “profound risks to society and humanity.”

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Fearing data leaks, Italy blocks ChatGPT

On March 31, Italian authorities decided to temporarily block an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called ChatGPT, as the country is investigating the possibility that the chatbot application violates strict data protection rules of the European Union (EU).