The Japanese Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC) recently issued an administrative guidance to OpenAI, the provider of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, warning it not to acquire user’s sensitive information without consent for ChatGPT’s machine learning. Privacy experts have mixed views about the PPC’s guidance, but it seems to indicate a shift in Japan’s approach that will see more scrutiny of generative artificial intelligence for better governance. The PPC didn’t find OpenAI had violated the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, but said it might take additional measures, if it detects more problematic issues in the future.
