As governments rush to address concerns about the rapidly-advancing generative artificial intelligence industry, experts in the field say greater oversight is needed over what data is used to train the systems.
Earlier this month, Italy’s data protection agency launched a probe of OpenAI and temporarily banned ChatGPT, their AI-powered chatbot. On Tuesday, Canada’s privacy commissioner also announced an investigation of OpenAI. Both agencies cited concerns around data privacy.
“You might say, ‘Oh, maybe it feels a bit heavy handed,'” said Katrina Ingram, founder of Edmonton-based consulting company Ethically Aligned AI.
“On the other hand, a company decided that it was just going to drop this
