Already being discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35385339
Thanks! Looks like that one was posted later; plus the URL isn't responding; so we'll merge those comments hither.
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
411–420 of 709 posts
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am also writing from Italy. In the last few months I have received so many spam calls from UK numbers that I have been forced to ban the whole of Britain from my phone. Good job Data Protection authority.
Report from Germany: Haven't received a spam call in years.
Report from Canada: I might receive something like three spam calls in the past year.
I don't know why my spam dropped so significantly when I moved up to Canada but it was quite dramatic compared to the US. There are periodic waves but I tend to miss out of them - I suspect because Canada works hard to prevent dumb auto-dialers from working.
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am also writing from Italy. In the last few months I have received so many spam calls from UK numbers that I have been forced to ban the whole of Britain from my phone. Good job Data Protection authority.
The UK has left the EU. They appear to not be abiding by EU privacy laws as a result.
Italian phone number had to get there somehow, probably sold by X, an Italian company?
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
Report from Germany: Haven't received a spam call in years.
Report from Canada: I might receive something like three spam calls in the past year. I don't know why my spam dropped so significantly when I moved up to Canada but it was quite dramatic compared to the US. There are periodic waves but I tend to miss out of them - I suspect because Canada works hard to prevent dumb auto-dialers from working.
It used to be much, much worse here. The CRTC has done some work to address that, it seems like it helped. [0]
[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-telecom-call-authentif...
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#415'exposes "minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness."' So do (certain) books. That's another issue right? If you let your minor access stuff, they.. access stuff. Hard to control? I know and it is. How is this specific to OpenAI?
wikipedia is full of amateur dick pics (vulvas too!) but perhaps the difference is that chatgpt could tell them stuff like "yeah, you should kill yourself"?
And there is no problem finding 3d-dicks in public in Rome (in the form of statues). But the article doesn't mention sexuality at all, my guess is that's more the potential for the dark stuff, especially when it can come in a very personal conversational form.
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#416Their loss
It's not like Italy needed the productivity boost (SORRY, SORRY!!)
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#417Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are standardized ways to check age based on national IDs and a company worth billions in venture capital like OpenAI can certainly afford to implement them. Alternatively they could just not publish a batshit crazy language model just because they see an opportunity to juice their valuation and spend a bit more time and money developing it so that it is reasonably safe to use for minors.
So you're saying OpenAI should collect more personal data?
> So you're saying OpenAI should collect more personal data?
Or I supposed they could sell their models as packaged software, and the store clerk can check the ID.
The model of standalone packaged software has several benefits to consumers, and privacy is one of those.
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#418Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am also writing from Italy. In the last few months I have received so many spam calls from UK numbers that I have been forced to ban the whole of Britain from my phone. Good job Data Protection authority.
Report from Germany: Haven't received a spam call in years.
Report from Italy: i receive at least 3-4 spam calls and messages a week
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#419Writing from rome, italy. These bureaucrats only pretend to work. The number of privacy violations in italy is staggering, i have to take 10 calls a day from power companies because they have access to all the phone number of anybody who has a gas or energy contract. I had to change phone numbers. Meanwhile they are going against a service that as far as i know does not even require your name to serve you.
What pisses me off is that some legitimate websites like project goutenberg are all blocked by my Internet provider in Italy and I have to go through a VPN to access them. Same for scribd, vdoc, libgen and so on.
why is Gutenberg blocked?
Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UK has left the EU. They appear to not be abiding by EU privacy laws as a result.
Italian phone number had to get there somehow, probably sold by X, an Italian company?
Probably phone numbers follow some numbering scheme etc. so it is relatively easy to spam everyone with automated dialing and handing the numbers that prove out to the scammer. Thus while it is possible sold by X, it is just as possible randomly pulled from limited pool of possible numbers.