OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT, was temporarily banned in Italy last week due to concerns that it violated Europe’s strict data privacy law, GDPR. OpenAI complied with the ban and said it would work with Italian regulators to educate them on how the AI software is trained and operates. Following the ban, the UK’s data protection regulator issued a warning that companies could fall afoul of Britain’s data protection laws if they weren’t careful in how they developed and used generative AI. European legal experts are actively debating whether the large foundation models at the core of today’s generative AI boom comply with GDPR.
