OpenAI's ChatGPT Falls Short on EU Regulations, EDPB Cites Inadequate Compliance Efforts
Summary:
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued a progress report on OpenAI's ChatGPT, indicating that efforts to align it with EU regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), have fallen short. Despite warnings and a ban in March 2023, the EDPB report suggests OpenAI has not made sufficient progress in remedying the potential for ChatGPT to produce biased, inaccurate, or potentially misleading data. The EDPB's concerns are amplified by the possibility that users may interpret the device's outputs as factually accurate. The path to compliance for OpenAI remains uncertain, but the EDPB has undisputedly stated that technical difficulty is not a justification for noncompliance.
The inaugural progress report on its "GPT taskforce" has been issued by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), and it does not bode well for ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI. Despite the tech company's attempts to conform its principal AI design with the regulations of the European Union (EU), comprising the exhaustive General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the efforts have been marked by the EDPB as inadequate. The report from EDPB states that the measures adopted to align with transparency norms are beneficial to prevent misconstruction of ChatGPT's output, but fall short of full compliance.
This comes in the backdrop of OpenAI facing multiple provisional bans from numerous EU nations throughout the year 2024. As reported first by Cointelegraph, Italy’s state data protection agency held that OpenAI and its ChatGPT continued to breach Italian and EU data privacy norms, despite previous warnings and a ban imposed earlier in March 2023. The EDPB critiques that OpenAI's subsequent efforts have been less than satisfactory to get ChatGPT in line with EU directives.
The main issue identified by the EDPB revolves around ChatGPT often producing unreliable information. "Essentially", says EDPB, "owing to the uncertain nature of the system, the current training methodology results in a model that may generate biased or fictitious outputs." The EDPB's report also communicates its apprehensions that “the results produced by ChatGPT could potentially be perceived as facts by end users," even when they may not be. The way forward for OpenAI to rectify these issues and make ChatGPT compliant is hazy, given that the GPT-4 model encompasses billions of data points and approximately a trillion parameters. Expecting humans to sift through this dataset for verification purposes to reach an acceptable degree of accuracy in line with GDPR norms seems unachievable. Nevertheless, the impossibility of this task technical-wise does not absolve OpenAI from compliance, as categorically stated by the EDPB.
Published At
5/24/2024 10:55:00 PM
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