OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes
The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
MIT Technology Review Melissa Heikkilä
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@lukemcgee
Luke McGee
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“experts have told MIT Technology Review that it will be next to impossible for OpenAI to comply with the rules. That's because of the way data used to train its AI models has been collected: by hoovering up content off the internet” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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@pedrodias
Pedro Dias
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“Italy has given OpenAI until April 30 to comply with the law. This would mean OpenAI would have to ask people for consent to have their data scraped, or prove that it has a “legitimate interest” in collecting it.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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@libshipwreck
@libshipwreck
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Wow, it's almost like “move fast and break things” is not actually a particularly great long term strategy... https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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@giffmana
Lucas Beyer
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EU+Canada authorities looking into OpenAI wrt GDPR. Will be very interesting to follow and see how this pans out. One important nugget for US folks to better understand what's going on (even if you disagree): https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@jaromil
Denis Roio
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Cryptography is the only thing that can grant you control over your data and presence on the Internet. Meanwhile, anything “public” is appropriated and resold by “AI” assistants https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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@connoraxiotes
Connor Axiotes
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🇮🇹 🇪🇺 There's a non-negligible chance that the EU could ban @OpenAI's GPT-4: “OpenAI has [a] temporary ban in Italy and a slew of investigations in other EU countries. If it fails, it could face hefty fines, be forced to delete data, or even be banned.” https://www-technologyrevi…
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@techreview
@techreview
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If OpenAI fails to comply with EU data protection laws following a slew of investigations, it could face hefty fines, be forced to delete data, or even be banned. The problem? It'll be next to impossible for OpenAI to comply with the rules. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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The European online privacy mindset would ban search engines if they were invented today. Their opposition to OpenAI is no different from being mad at search engines. Similarly, end to end encryption wouldn't be legal if it was invented today. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ..…
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@jason_kint
Jason Kint
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Everything in this piece on AI reminds me precisely of the issue with how Facebook was built and then became too big and powerful for real privacy enforcement. /4 https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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@martinsfp
@martinsfp
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A good look at the OpenAI's GDPR nightmare. Most other generative AI companies could have similar problems. Adobe is at a clear advantage here - its image generator is built only on images it owns the rights to. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...