Japanese regulators have issued a warning to OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, over its data collection methods. The country’s Personal Information Protection Commission has called on OpenAI to reduce the amount of sensitive data it collects for machine learning and to ensure that it obtains people’s permission before doing so. The commission also stressed the need to balance privacy concerns with the potential benefits of AI, as well as the risks the technology poses to society. The Japanese government submitted a draft of its AI strategy council, which raised concerns about the lack of AI regulations, shortly before the commission’s warning was issued.
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research institute consisting of a for-profit research company and a non-profit AI research company. It was founded in 2015 by a group of tech billionaires including Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Japanese lawmaker Takashi Kii has called for new regulations to protect copyright holders from infringement by AI algorithms.
