I can not enter. Countries that have banned ChatGpt

26 January 20231 year ago babelfish

The hugely popular artificial intelligence is not accessible in China, Afghanistan, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, Russia and, in recent hours, even in Ukraine. Because?

Although China, through Baidu, Huawei, Tencent and Inspur is among the nations that invests the most in AI, ChatGpt has remained outside the Great Wall, precisely that huge firewall that filters online content thus leaving Chinese internet users “free” to move only within their bubble, filled with mostly internal contents.

EVEN WHEN CHATGPT IS INCOMFORTABLE

For a regime, an artificial intelligence that speaks without brakes can be really uncomfortable. And this is probably why ChatGpt has never been accessible from China and Hong Kong, unless you decide to switch between VPNs and a phone registered in third countries.

However, a technical gabola for a few weeks had linked ChatGPT to WeChat, the popular Chinese social network developed by Tencent. There were also several tutorials on how to connect to ChatGPT on WeChat, but with warnings about the risks in case Tencent or the Chinese government then decided, as they did, to close this single gateway too on the AI driving the web crazy.

Some WeChat accounts that provided information on how to access ChatGPT or screenshots showing the AI program have been shut down entirely. The link that connected the two programs leads to a page explaining that "the service has been suspended because the content belongs to the scope of non-open services of the platform", according to the translation offered by the search engine.

Apart from China, the chats offered by ChatGpt cannot be heard by internet users from Afghanistan, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran and Russia. In some cases these are obligations deriving from international sanctions, in others from decisions taken by authoritarian governments which, obviously, have not issued any official decision on the matter.

CHATGPT OUTSIDE UKRAINE ALSO

In the last few hours, OpenAI has also had to block ChatGPT in Ukraine: as reported by Gizchina and the local division of Forbes , the impossibility of accessing artificial intelligence from the country "is linked to the sanctions that also apply to the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk which are under the control of Russia. This is also related to the Crimea”.

Would like to appeal to ChatGPT team, @OpenAI to open your software for Ukraine. We are excited how it develops AI tools. Ukrainians are tech-savy, cool & ready to test innovations now. Personally me will use your tool to make my twitter account great again. Sounds like a deal? pic.twitter.com/PoKaMZplpM

— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) January 13, 2023

Even the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov took an interest in the matter who, via Twitter, appealed directly to the software house coaxed by Microsoft to request the opening of the site in the country.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/io-non-posso-entrare-i-paesi-che-hanno-vietato-chatgpt/ on Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:48:46 +0000.