Italy’s Data Protection Authority said on Friday that it was temporarily blocking the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT over data privacy concerns.
ChatGPT, which is developed by US firm OpenAI, has gained wide global attention for its ability to generate essays, songs, exams and even news articles from brief prompts.
Critics have raised concerns about the lack of transparency on how ChatGPT and similar softwares collect and process users’ data.
Italy is the first…