Tag: Data privacy

OpenAI, a San Francisco-based research laboratory that specializes in artificial intelligence, has been given a deadline of April 30th to modify their AI ChatGPT so it resumes operations in Italy. ChatGPT caught public attention for being able to generate essays, songs and other content. Italy's Data Protection Authority will reopen the platform if the OpenAI team provides a risk reduction and age confirmation method for users. Data collection and storage procedures are also under review.

The European Union has long sought to become a hub of innovation. But its attempt to regulate technology like ChatGPT has backfired, leaving its ambitions to catch up to the US and China at risk of failure. Recent regulations such as the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, draft AI Act & the upcoming Data Act have hampered innovative investments and left Europe trailing in the race for advancing technology. Will the EU adopt structural reforms to stay competitive and approve technologies for the future?

OpenAI has come under fire for its heavy reliance on data to power its AI models, raising red flags from data protection authorities around the world, who are concerned OpenAI may not have acquired valid consent to use data scraped from users. The European Data Protection Board has set a deadline of April 30 for OpenAI to gain compliance and avoid potential heavy fines and bans from the European Union. AI expert Alexis Leautier at the French regulatory body CNIL is a key figure in the investigation of OpenAI's practices.

Class Technologies recently announced its plan to launch A.I. Teaching Assistant, a revolutionary ChatGPT-powered platform designed to improve student engagement and results on online courses. Students can now interact with the ChatGPT-powered AI assistant to ask questions, receive answers right away and even generate a personalized study guide. Michael Chasen, the CEO of Class Technologies expressed enthusiasm on the possibilities of AI-driven education and its potential to scale and teach great educators with student's outcomes as focus. All data privacy requirement and feedbacks from colleges are considered to improve the platform and make sure the user has full control over the AI assistant.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can generate essays, songs, exams and more from brief prompts, had been blocked in Europe due to privacy concerns. With the help of Italy's Data Protection Authority and its executive director, Pasquale Stanzione, OpenAI is working toward bringing the AI chatbot back by April 30th. Through observation, Stanzione hopes OpenAI will prove its legal basis for data collection, improve user privacy features and reduce the chances of providing misleading answers.