Japan’s privacy watchdog, the Personal Information Protection Commission, has warned OpenAI, a Microsoft-backed startup, which is the creator of ChatGPT chatbot, against collecting sensitive user data without permission. The watchdog stated that OpenAI must minimize collected sensitive data used for machine learning and could face further action if it continues to collect data without permission. Regulators around the world are forming rules for generative artificial intelligence ChatGPT, which can create text and images. Japan is seen as one of the world’s leaders in maintaining productivity through Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the shrinking population era. OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, met with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to expand into Japan ahead of the G7 summit.
OpenAI is a Microsoft-backed start-up behind the creation of ChatGPT. It is an artificial intelligence language model that can generate human-like text.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He met with Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, to discuss expanding the company into Japan ahead of the G7 summit.