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Samsung Bans Staff’s AI Use After Spotting ChatGPT Data Leak
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Samsung Bans Staff’s AI Use After Spotting ChatGPT Data Leak

[ad_1] Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT after discovering staff uploaded sensitive code to the platform, dealing a setback to the spread of such technology in the workplace.The Suwon, South Korea-based company notified staff at one of its biggest divisions on Monday about the new policy via a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. The company is concerned that data transmitted to such artificial intelligence platforms including Google Bard and Bing is stored on external servers, making it difficult to retrieve and delete, and could end up being disclosed to other users, according to the document. The company conducted a survey last month about the use of AI tools internally and said that 65% of respondents believe that such services p...
Italy lifts block on ChatGPT, AI chatbot owner says
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Italy lifts block on ChatGPT, AI chatbot owner says

[ad_1] Italy has lifted its block on ChatGPT after temporarily banning it over data privacy concerns last month, the artificial intelligence chatbot's owner said Friday."ChatGPT is available again for our users in Italy. We are delighted to welcome them back and remain committed to protecting their personal data," an OpenAI spokesperson said. ChatGPT caused a global sensation when it was released last year for generating essays, songs, exams and even news articles from brief prompts. But critics have fretted over how ChatGPT and its competitors collect and process their data.In March, Italy became the first Western country to take action against the popular AI chatbot.The country's data protection watchdog had said that US firm OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, had no legal basis to just...
German authors, performers call for tougher ChatGPT rules amid copyright concerns
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German authors, performers call for tougher ChatGPT rules amid copyright concerns

[ad_1] Forty-two German associations and trade unions representing more than 140,000 authors and performers on Wednesday urged the European Union to beef up draft artificial intelligence rules as they singled out the threat to their copyright from ChatGPT.Trade unions for the creative sector Verdi and DGB and associations for photographers, designers, journalists and illustrators set out their concerns in a letter to the European Commission, European Council and EU lawmakers. The letter underlined the growing worries about generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT which can mimic humans and create text and images based on prompts. "The unauthorised usage of protected training material, its non-transparent processing, and the foreseeable substitution of the sources by the o...
Italy says ChatGPT can be back if it makes ‘useful’ changes
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Italy says ChatGPT can be back if it makes ‘useful’ changes

[ad_1] The head of Italy's privacy watchdog was hopeful Tuesday that OpenAI would adjust its AI chatbot so it could be back online in the country at the end of April.Italy's watchdog temporarily blocked ChatGPT at the end of March over data privacy concerns, becoming the first Western country to take action against the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. "We are ready to reopen ChatGPT on April 30, if there is a willingness on the part of OpenAI to take useful steps," Data Protection Authority chief Pasquale Stanzione told the Corriere della Sera daily. "It seems that on the company's side there is, we'll see," he said.ChatGPT caused a global sensation when it was released last year for generating essays, songs, exams and even news articles from brief prompts.But critics have ...
ChatGPT can resume in Italy if meets data watchdog’s demands
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ChatGPT can resume in Italy if meets data watchdog’s demands

[ad_1] Italy's data protection agency set out a list of demands on Wednesday to address its concerns over ChatGPT and allow the chatbot service run by OpenAI to resume in the country.Almost two weeks ago Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy after the authority, known as Garante, temporarily restricted its personal data processing and began a probe into a suspected breach of privacy rules. In a statement on Wednesday Garante laid out a set of "concrete" demands to be met by the end of this month "Only in this case.. the authority will suspend the provisional restrictions on the use of the data of Italian users ... and ChatGPT will once again become accessible in Italy," it said.OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Italy was the first Western E...
AI chatbot ChatGPT faces growing scrutiny in Europe
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AI chatbot ChatGPT faces growing scrutiny in Europe

[ad_1] France's data regulator said on Wednesday it had received two complaints about the AI program ChatGPT, as European authorities deepened their scrutiny of the chatbot days after Italy banned it.ChatGPT, created by US firm OpenAI, has provided a global hit by demonstrating an ability to generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts -- as well as passing tough exams. But Italian regulators said last Friday that the firm had no legal basis to engage in massive data collection and questioned the way it was handling the information it had gathered. European authorities including those of France, Ireland and Germany have since approached their Italian counterpart to try to establish a common position on ChatGPT.And the concerns are not limited to Europe -- on Tue...