{"id":162108,"date":"2023-04-13T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/italy-gives-openai-initial-to-do-list-for-lifting-chatgpt-suspension-order"},"modified":"2023-04-13T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:24:13","slug":"italy-gives-openai-initial-to-do-list-for-lifting-chatgpt-suspension-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/italy-gives-openai-initial-to-do-list-for-lifting-chatgpt-suspension-order","title":{"rendered":"Italy gives OpenAI initial to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/italy-gives-openai-initial-to-do-list-for-lifting-chatgpt-suspension-order2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/01\/chatgpt-blocked-in-italy\/\">end of last month<\/a> \u2014 when it said it suspected the AI chatbot service was in breach of the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ordered the U.S.-based company to stop processing locals\u2019 data.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s GDPR applies whenever personal data is processed, and there\u2019s no doubt large language models such as OpenAI\u2019s GPT have hoovered up vast amounts of the stuff off the public internet in order to train their generative AI models to be able to respond in a human-like way to natural language prompts.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI responded to the Italian data protection authority\u2019s order by swiftly <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/01\/chatgpt-blocked-in-italy\/\">geoblocking access to ChatGPT<\/a>. In a brief public statement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1641897800236687360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> confirmation it had ceased offering the service in Italy \u2014 doing so alongside the usual Big Tech boilerplate caveat that it \u201cthink[s] we are following all privacy laws.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month \u2014 when it said it suspected the AI chatbot service was in breach of the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ordered the U.S.-based company to stop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}