(PRZWT)-On April 6th, according to foreign media reports, on Wednesday local time, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) announced an investigation into OpenAI, the developer behind the AI chat robot ChatGPT.
Previously, the regulatory agency received complaints that OpenAI collected, used, and leaked personal information without consent.
OpenAI was jointly founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, Altman, President of Y Combinator, an American business incubator, and Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, a global online payment platform, and other Silicon Valley technology tycoons. It focuses on AI technology applications and is famous for its artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT and Dall-E 2, an image generator.
ChatGPT is a new AI chat robot tool launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. It can quickly generate articles, stories, lyrics, essays, jokes, and even code according to user requirements, and answer various questions. Once released, it caused a storm on the internet.
Although generative AI such as ChatGPT is very helpful in improving work efficiency, there are still many unresolved issues when using ChatGPT for work, such as Samsung's chip secret leak incident that occurred within less than 20 days.
With ChatGPT becoming popular, more and more countries are concerned about the privacy risks this technology brings.
At the end of March this year, the Italian Personal Data Protection Agency announced that it would immediately ban the use of ChatGPT, restrict OpenAI from processing Italian user information, and begin an investigation. The institution pointed out that on March 20 of this year, the ChatGPT platform experienced a loss of user conversation data and payment service payment information.
It is reported that this is the first time ChatGPT platform has encountered a major personal data breach. However, OpenAI has fixed the vulnerability, reported the technical details of the issue, and apologized to the user and the entire ChatGPT community.
Meanwhile, it is reported that other countries, including Germany, France, and Ireland, are also closely monitoring this situation to determine whether ChatGPT has violated the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) rules.
In addition, at the end of March this year, the non-profit technology ethics organization AI and the Center for Digital Policy (CAIDP) also complained that ChatGPT posed a risk to privacy and public security, requested the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate OpenAI, and called on officials to review and regulate OpenAI's generative AI technology, especially its new generation large language model GPT-4.
Prior to this, thousands of technology professionals, including Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling for a suspension of training for AI systems that are more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months.
