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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Alex Hern

UK watchdog warns chatbot developers over data protection laws

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The ICO published a checklist for firms days after the Italian data protection watchdog announced a temporary ban on ChatGPT. Photograph: Andrea Ronchini/Pacific Press/Rex/Shutterstock

Britain’s data watchdog has issued a warning to tech firms about the use of people’s personal information to develop chatbots after concerns that the underlying technology is trained on large quantities of unfiltered material scraped from the web.

The intervention from the Information Commissioner’s Office came after its Italian counterpart temporarily banned ChatGPT over data privacy concerns.

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