Italian regulators have informed OpenAI that its ChatGPT chatbot has violated the European Union's strict data privacy rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The country's data protection authority, known as Garante, announced on Monday that it has notified the San Francisco-based company of breaches.
The investigation into ChatGPT began last year when Garante temporarily banned the chatbot within Italy. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system capable of generating text, images, and sound in response to user queries. Following its 'fact-finding activity,' the watchdog concluded that there were breaches of the EU privacy rules based on the available evidence.
