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Aaron O'Leary

Italy has banned ChatGPT, could this be a sign of things to come?

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Italy has become the first western country to ban ChatGPT. The Government has cited privacy concerns as a reason for the ban. Could this be a sign for things to come, not just for ChatGPT but AI as a whole?
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ItzMaker
True
Ksenia Larina (she/her)
Oh, absolutely. And we will fight about AI for decades to come. Some will use fear as a way to gatekeep, others will leverage it against their opponents using limited understanding of the general public of what it is and how it works. We made climate change controversial, I won’t be surprised if attempts to regulate or deregulate AI will cause wars or violent protests at least.
Stephen
@kay_larina I hope you are not right about about the violence aspect, but it certainly is a hot issue because it is a new and powerful machine that can be used in many ways - good and bad alike.
Ksenia Larina (she/her)
@stephen_smith67 oh, I hope I'm not right too :) But a lot of people have been polarised by even less controversial things, AI just has too much room for misunderstanding, speculations and conspiracies.
Naveed Rehman
They stopped the chatbot, not APIs. I see huge marketing there to sell chatbots.
Marco Ceruti
@naveed_rehman true. I’m Italian and I run ChatGPT locally on my Mac using OpenAI API But the majority of the people who want to use ChatGPT are using VPNs
Kemal Karatas
AI is awesome, ChatGPT is also a good product but every innovation needs serious regulations. Each ecosystem checks the situations. There should be an alternative worst scenario against the unexpected results.
Abid Unnisa
Scary😳
Stephen
@abid_unnisa and amazing. They kinda go together.
Marco Ceruti
I’m Italian, and things are getting out of hand. It was done for precaution, because APPARENTLY ChatGPT was storing more data than they should, and that would be against GDPR. The amount they should have to pay if confirmed (4% of their annual revenue, or 20M€) is the standard for GDPR violation But apparently the person in charge who took this decision also signed the open letter that was asking to pause AI development (the one signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and many others) So people are saying that ChatGPT was stopped not because of privacy, but because of fear Fun fact, you can still use OpenAI products. People started using VPNs to access ChatGPT I run it locally on my Mac using a local software, connected to the OpenAI API Another fun fact is that I have a single account to access OpenAI services (ChatGPT, dev dashboard, Dall-E), so I can assume they use SSO. If that is the case, why am I able to log in my dev dashboard, and not ChatGPT? If the problem is data retention, it should be escalated to the whole infrastructure, while in the end only ChatGPT was affected (which is “just a SaaS” if we are considering the OpenAI ecosystem) We’ll see, but the way this is being managed is ridiculous 😂
Gwakchang Joseph Gambo
@marco_ceruti I like your use of words, 'precaution' because the internet itself is not properly secured.
Cloud
It is getting terrifyingly interesting.
Nazli Celebi
Italy banned Starbucks for years, not suprised
Andrea Aceves
@nazli_celebi I’m seriously mind blown
Aaron O'Leary
@nazli_celebi I can't say I don't support the Starbucks decision
Simon
That just means more bandwidth for the free world.
Sushmita Sahu
Governments might come up with some regulations around AI, since there's a fear of job loss.
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