The government of Italy has banned ChatGPT, the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, saying that it lacks an age verification system and that its collection and processing of user data is in violation of the country's privacy laws.
The order, made by Italy's Data Protection Authority, states that ChatGPT users aren't given any information about the collection and use of their data, and that there's no "legal underpinning" for that data collection, which it says is used to train ChatGPT. It also sayss that testing has shown that information provided by ChatGPT "does not always match factual circumstances"—which is true, chatbots are prone to bullshitting—and that while the terms of service limits its use to people over the age of 13, there's no age verification system in place.
