Italia gave until April 30 so that the American technological Open AI tailor tool data management Artificial intelligence ChatGPT to Italian regulations, after blocking its use throughout the country.
The Italian guarantor for Data Protection also requested that it present an age verification system that is capable of preventing access to those under 13 years of age and whose operation must be in force before September 30, 2023.
Likewise, Open AI must start before May 15 a media campaign to inform people about the use it makes of their personal data in order to train algorithms and improve the performance of its services.
Regarding the management of personal data, the company will have to enable an easily accessible website in which it explains the storage, treatment and processing of the information it collects from its users.
Likewise, this protocol will have to be shown to people who register from Italy, who must accept it before using the service, while those who have already registered will have to do so when it is reactivated.
On March 31, the Italian authorities ordered the blockade “with immediate effect” of the Artificial Intelligence tool, accusing it of not respecting the consumer data protection law.
The popular ChatGPT has been developed by the OpenIA company in the United States, where several organizations have also requested its suspension for being suspicious of these experiments with Artificial Intelligence.
According to the organization, this tool, the best known of the emerging artificial intelligence, capable of simulating human conversations, suffered a loss of data on its users and the payment data of its subscribers on March 20.
In his disposition, he also highlighted “the lack of information to users and all interested parties from whom OpenAI collects data” but “above all the absence of a legal basis justifying the massive collection and storage of personal data“.
The use of artificial intelligence is becoming more frequent and thriving and, for this reason, UNESCO has urged countries to apply “without delay” the Global Ethical Framework on this technology, unanimously adopted in 2021 by the 193 Member States. .