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Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by rvnx »

rvz wrote: post #61
meghan_rain wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God please make them consider Microsoft the owner and calc revenue based on Microsoft's global revenue.

They should and both O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com and Microsoft were caught by this regulator in the EU. If this regulator knows what is best, they should definitely fine Microsoft 4% of their global revenues on top of that reckless chat history leakage incident O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com had. There is a reason why Google launched Bard in non-EU countries.

The poor quality of Bard answers and the fact it is able to speak only English may most likely be a more important factor

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by SanderNL »

thefz wrote: post #50
baxtr wrote: post #41

Saying this as a European: Whenever I visit Italy, I love the food, I love the people, I love the weather and the beaches. However, I often sense that in many places, the country seems to be entrenched in its medieval past. This decision will not accelerate Italy's progress towards a more prosperous future.

I am actually very happy about this. If you like to have no protection over how big corporate treats your data as your own, and ingests whatever whenever they need to profit off your personal information, be my guest. But I am happy to have a watchdog over my basic human rights. > However, I often sense that in many places, the country seems to be entrenched in its medieval past. It might be. But not on this front.

This would be more believable if giant companies weren't already choking on every detail of every part of our lives just because you put a checkmark somewhere. Going after OpenAI seems like a move to pretend to still be relevant.

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by baxtr »

bjornsing wrote: post #91
SanderNL wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The user is doing it. They are literally typing it. They are consenting to this. We don't need "watchdogs" "protecting" us from stuff we want to do ourselves.

> We don't need "watchdogs" "protecting" us from stuff we want to do ourselves. I fully agree. But do Europeans in general? Where I am (Sweden) the whole point of politics seems to be to “protect” us from ourselves.

That's actually the sad message being conveyed by this, right?

"You are so dumb, you need to be protected by the state doing stupid things with your data."

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by lm28469 »

0xDEF wrote: post #23

This is just a temporary annoyance for OpenAI. Their partner/owner Microsoft already hosts GDPR compliant OpenAI GPT-3 models from an Azure data center (in the EU). It's only a question of time before they also host GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/o... Azure ain't cheap but they know how to do EU compliance. Many EU governments put their citizens data on Azure's EU…

Except that it has nothing do do with the server location, having your servers in Europe doesn't magically get rid of gdpr requirements

The article clearly states the issues

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by zvmaz »

prenoob wrote: post #82

Writing 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.

Do you think that the stated motivation for banning chatGPT is just a veil?

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by dmix »

StockHuman wrote: post #92
capableweb wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And here is a translation by ChatGPT (GPT-4) together with a diff against what Google Translate provided you: https://www.diffchecker.com/gPop1UpU/ (Google Translate on the left, GPT-4 on the right) Now we just need a authentic Italian to tell us which version is most accurate :)

Curiously, their flaws balance out to neither being all that better. GPT-4 gets some words right, but changes the formal tone to something more casual, which doesn’t happen with Google’s translation. If it didn’t, it would probably be the better translation.

GPT article summaries are also always super generic and miss the tone. Even if you tell it to be more specific.

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by fofoz »

prenoob wrote: post #82

Writing 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.

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.

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by thefz »

SanderNL wrote: post #102
thefz wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am actually very happy about this. If you like to have no protection over how big corporate treats your data as your own, and ingests whatever whenever they need to profit off your personal information, be my guest. But I am happy to have a watchdog over my basic human rights. > However, I often sense that in many places, the country seems to be entrenched in its medieval past. It might be. But not on this front.

This would be more believable if giant companies weren't already choking on every detail of every part of our lives just because you put a checkmark somewhere. Going after OpenAI seems like a move to pretend to still be relevant.

Hmmm, no. I am pretty sure giant companies had to adapt to GDPR, and any (found) violation is persecuted accordingly.
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