Trade body questions whether consumers have suffered ‘reputation damage’ due to OpenAI’s ‘unfair or misleading’ practices
OR Chat GPTconversation robot (chatbot) from Open AIhas become the target of investigations this week by the US trade regulator, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the newspaper revealed Washington Post.
The American body is verifying whether the service has caused damage to consumers and whether the company has implemented “unfair or misleading” practices in terms of privacy and data security. According to the document, these practices may have caused “reputational damage” to people.
The FTC also asked the company to provide records of a security incident it revealed in March when a flaw in its systems allowed some users to see payment information, as well as some data from other users’ chat histories. .
In addition, the US regulator is also investigating whether OpenAI’s data security practices violate US consumer protection laws. OpenAI said in a blog post that the number of users whose data was disclosed to others was “extremely low.”
Neither OpenAI nor the FTC responded to a request for comment submitted by Washington Post this Thursday the 13th.
In recent years, the FTC has been responsible for imposing fines on several tech giants, such as Objective, amazon AND Twitterunder US consumer protection laws.
Governments crack down on AI
The US government isn’t alone in investigating the practices of AI generative intelligence companies, whose services have been trained on billions of Internet data points.
In March, Italy banned ChatGPT in the country after concluding that personal data and information had been violated by European law — service was restored within a weekafter OpenAI complied with government requests.
In April the Spanish and French data protection authorities launched investigations to understand if these artificial intelligence services violate user privacy.
At the same time, the European Union is debating world-first legislation to regulate various AI models, including generative AIs that deliver services like ChatGPT. The prediction is that the legislative provision will enter into force in 2024, after the approval of the European trialogue. / WITH WASHINGTON POST
Source: Terra
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