Yesterday, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) announced it has officially initiated preliminary investigation proceedings against the American company OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, due to a potential violation of data protection regulations. This makes Spain join France and Germany in investigating the utilization of personal data by this artificial intelligence. Italy, the United States, and China have all expressed the intention to implement legislation in order to reduce the risks posed by this technology.
The AEPD requested the European Data Protection Committee to include ChatGPT into the next plenary session. This request was granted, and the committee held a meeting yesterday that resulted in the working group for promoting cooperation and the exchange of information regarding ChatGPT actions. The plenary session revealed that procedures for technologically advanced treatments necessitate coordination for harmonized actions executed in accordance with data protection regulations.
In a statement, the AEPD advocates the use of innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence, as long as current legislation is respected while understanding that technological development must include the rights and freedoms of the people.
Universal Music Group (UMG) has claimed the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) by music platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify potentially violates the rights of authors of the songs used. UMG has asked these platforms to block the training of AI models to avoid the misappropriation of said works, and the label has indicated it is willing to take legal action if copyright is violated.
Google has a service called MusicLM which generates music from text and has not released this tool as it has noticed a “risk of possible misappropriation of creative content.” Experiments have revealed MusicLM to be superior to its predecessors with regards to audio quality and adhering to text descriptions.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Jukebox, has developed a system that can create music without involving an artist, which involves a simple process of entering a brief description of what the user wants. It is capable of creating music from reggaeton to “spacey, otherworldly sound.”
This use of technology was already addressed in January when a group of creators sued three digital art-related companies for copyright infringement, and Getty Images took legal action in London’s High Court of Justice against Stability AI.
OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence company in the world, founded in 2015 with the mission of responsible development and deployment of advanced AI technologies that benefit humanity. They have created and developed a variety of projects such as GPT-3, a natural language processing model that helps large and small businesses access AI, and the ChatGPT project which is a chatbot and conversational AI that is used to generate and respond to text messages. Founded by tech visionaries Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s roster of brilliant researchers and engineers have made history.
Greg Brockman is the Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI and is leading the company’s mission to ensure that state-of-the-art artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. He has over 20 years of experience building companies in the software, robotics, healthcare, and transportation industries. His past experience includes running the Customer Success team as COO at Stripe and serving as Head of Technology at Splunk. He is known for his sharp technical insight and broad experience, and his passion for AI has been instrumental in turning OpenAI into a force for the good of humanity.
