Poland launches investigation against OpenAI amid privacy concerns
Poland’s personal data protection office received an unnamed complaint that OpenAI generated false information about them and didn’t even correct it.
Highlights
- ChatGPT chatbot breaks the Union data protection law known as GDPR
- The case concerns the protection of personal data and violation of many provisions
- Mircrosoft has invested billions of dollars on OpenAI
According to Jan Nowak, President of Poland’s personal data protection office (UODO), an unknown person informed Nowak that OpenAI had been generating false news about them and not even correcting it.
OpenAI will be asked numerous questions due to provisional protection of personal data concerns, said the President.
The Microsoft - backed AI company has been going through an investigation by a Polish watchdog because of a complaint that the ChatGPT chatbot has broken the European Union data protection laws known as general data protection regulations (GDPR).
No response from OpenAI
The complainant said that the company was not able to find out which personal data was processed and also gave false information and answers to their questions. OpenAI did not respond immediately to the email or comment on any of these cases.
Lawsuit target tech companies
Tech giants including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are facing lawsuits over web scraping which is the process of using online data to train AI models. Lawsuits have been filed against these top AI companies over copyright issues and personal data infamation.
At the same time, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has 100 million active users in just two months.
