2023-04-13 11:44:32
ChatGPT is in the crosshairs of the EU. After Italy’s decision to ban the use of the popular chatbot developed by OpenAI, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) will debate today on the situation of the tool, whose developer, according to the Italian Guarantor, and with numerous experts and academics, is not clear about the use it makes of the information it collects from users and about the sources with which you have trained it. Among other things.
The inclusion of ChatGPT in the order of the plenary session announced by the EDPB occurs at the request of a request submitted by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD). As he explained to this newspaper, the Agency “considers that global treatments that can have a significant impact on the rights of individuals require a coordination and harmonization framework encompassed in the European Regulation.” That is to say, the objective is that the 27 states that make up the EU act in the same way.
“It is to be hoped that the Committee request more information from OpenAI about the tool”, explains Borja Adsuara, a legal expert in data protection, in conversation with ABC. The lawyer points out that, to offer service in the EU, the company must have a representative at a European level that submits to the legislation, something that, to date, has not been fulfilled. »You have to say what you do with the data, if they are transferred to third parties and so on. Basically, comply with the regulation. The same thing should be asked of him as the rest of the technological companies “, he settles.
The fact that OpenAI does not have representation in the EU means that states can only block access to the tool and cannot fine the company, as has happened with many other North American technology companies in recent years. “The European Committee could address the blocking of ChatGPT. But it has no powers to do it directly. It is the different administrations (belonging to each state) that would have to open the corresponding sanctioning files, “says Adsuara.
Therefore, the Committee could come to the conclusion that ChatGPT should be blocked on community soil, but it is the different states that must carry out the procedure for this.
Be that as it may, the problems for OpenAI are not only occurring in the EU. Both the United States and China are beginning to take steps toward regulation. of content generators based on artificial intelligence. That is, all those tools that are capable of creating text, audio or video from a handful of words written by the user.
This could lead to the fact that, in the future, these tools must be tested by external experts before they are released to the public, which is precisely what more than a thousand businessmen, academics and humanists requested in an open letter a few days ago. China, for example, includes this point in the regulatory proposal that it has prepared and which, it is expected, will enter into force before the end of 2023.
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