I’ll explain the real catch of ChatGpt

1 April 20231 year ago babelfish

The comment of Professor Enrico Nardelli of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", president of "Informatics Europe" and director of the National Laboratory "Informatics and School" of CINI, on the decision of the Guarantor for the confidentiality of data on ChatGpt

It seems to me that formally the decision is flawless, even if for the moment it is an urgent act by the President that the college must confirm within 30 days (as I imagine will happen).

However, I think that what I believe are the two main points contested (the lack of a disclosure compliant with the GDPR on the data collected and the lack of an age verification system) can be remedied in a time that is certainly less than 6 months (the moratorium requested by the famous letter).

Personally I would try to do something else, based on public information legislation. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if it's feasible, but essentially here we have a system that – unlike search engines that respond to users with something that actually exists on the web – fabricates information that is sometimes false.

This flaw can be fixed with much more difficulty and therefore this approach would provide, if feasible, a legal basis to block the use of ChatGPT for a much longer time.

Let me be clear: I don't think it makes sense to block research and development in this sector, but here there is something equivalent (indeed, probably superior) to a technology for building portable nuclear reactors at negligible cost. They can be a huge benefit to everyone, but they can also be very dangerous. Some form of regulation must be found.

I would add that a complaint filed in the USA with the Federal Trade Commission by the Center for AI and Digital Policy goes exactly in this direction since it cites, among other things, "consumer deception" as a reason for blocking the use of these tools .

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/chatgpt-garante-privacy/ on Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:34:25 +0000.