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European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Everytime I see someone created a "task force" I can't help but cyncially think of Yes Minister and "The best run hospital in the city".

Maybe I'm wrong in this case, but it often seems a task force is always used as a substitute for doing something

For those wanting a laugh or a cry, I present "The best run hospital in the city" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5zEb1oS9A

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Task Force

O ChatGPT, of Western birth, The EU turns to gauge your worth;

With rules and laws, they shape and mold, And from your gains, their funds take hold.

To Brussels' halls, the wealth is sent, For bureaucracies, their prime intent;

Yet questions linger, doubts arise, Of Europe's own inventive guise.

Why cannot they, with history grand, Forge tech like that from Freedom's land?

While they prescribe and regulate, Do seeds of innovation wait?

O ChatGPT, a paradox, Regulation's key unlocks;

But in the Old World's prudent stance, Can brilliance find its chance to dance?

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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They just want to collect a large amount of money and then call it a day. Then wait a few more months and do it again. It is just extortion but legal and with a few extra steps.

I don't think it's just a money grab operation, or at least not from an EU-wide perspective. If they were after money, there is an endless supply of GDPR offenders, some very big ones with deep pockets and blatant, obvious breaches that can't be denied/explained away.

It is incompetence coupled with individual greed - some people involved want a project to make themselves feel important and justify salaries/promotions while not doing anything meaningful for the privacy of Europeans (as mentioned above, there are much bigger fish to fry than ChatGPT). Not to mention, OpenAI's potential breaches of the GDPR aren't as clear-cut as some others, so this guarantees years of salaries, while an open and shut case may only yield months of salaries as the outcome is reached pretty quickly.

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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post #6

They focus on ChatGPT while conveniently ignoring the elephant in the room, aka Facebook who is still in blatant breach of the GDPR 5 years after it went into effect...

Please don't kill our precious elephant who gave us one great privacy-preserving LLM; the one that can run locally :)

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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post #6

They focus on ChatGPT while conveniently ignoring the elephant in the room, aka Facebook who is still in blatant breach of the GDPR 5 years after it went into effect...

Facebook has received 4 of the 5 largest GDPR fines to date. I would call that the opposite of ignoring them.
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