OpenAI's ChatGPT Blocked In Italy - Slashdot

OpenAI's ChatGPT Blocked In Italy

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  Regulators are here just hopping on the hype of the day. Doing something that would be a net positive for the people is too hard for their tiny brains.

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    No - this is similar to the YouTube COPPA mess in the US. Trying to age-gate the internet without a simple, universally-available real-world-user age verification mechanism in existence is asking for pain.

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  Quote: "Also, where were these regulators when social media companies were/are intentionally violating user's privacy?"

  Why do you think it's called "Meta" and no longer "Facebook"; or "Alphabet" and not "Google"?

  Because investors link EU money punishments to a company name, so they "create" a new one.

  Should EU Law punish the CEOs pockets directly... well, that'd be n utopia.

  • Don't be silly.

    The law isn't a computer. This isn't like working around a firewall block by changing your IP address. Do you really think you could get away with a crime by changing your name?

    • It's really weird how common the notion is that you can evade the law "... With This One Easy Trick!"

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        It's not about evading the law, it's about perception. As the article summary indicates, the ban is not about protecting the voting public but the perception that the state is doing something about it. ChatGPT is useless without the data collected by social media. In order to protect the Italian citizen the government would have to go after the data collectors. Who are the data collectors? The public knows them as Facebook. The investors know them as Meta. The legal entities that operate under those names i

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        Indeed. For as long as I've been looking at people commenting on tech topics, they get really weird when talking about legal issues and assume stringing together odd technicalities in law will fix any legal trouble because the law is some dumb system that can be trivially outsmarted.

        Nope, the spirit of the law will follow through, unless the prosecution effort *wants* to let someone off the hook. The people famously let off the hook on these sorts of technicalities are generally because the prosecution *wan

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      Ofc not, because changing your name requires you to contact the relevant authority in the country you reside, and they always want additional info like your ssn/bsn ( what ever it's called in the relevant country) and I strongly supect they allso keep a record of your old name just in case.

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    That has got to be the dumbest thing ever posted on Slashdot. No a name change doesn't get you out of a fine or a regulation.

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  The questions users ask ChatGPT are also user data. There seems to be significant concerns that the questions will reveal information about users. Some companies are also concerned that it may reveal info about R&D being done by employees who use ChatGPT.
  I would say the same concerns should apply to internet search engines but somehow this seems to have been overlooked.

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    Second This ^

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    People using public models are agreeing to have the prompt data shared, which the law allows.

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  I'm Italian and I can access ChatGPT without problems, not sure how/if the block was implemented, might be the usual half-assed DNS-level block that you can override simply by using a different DNS provider.
  I use Dns0 with DNSoTLS.

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  1) During those years, the regulators could do little due to lack of framework. What they did was negotiating details of a project of regulation now known as GDPR. Now that it is in place, they can use it. There's margin for interpretation, so Italy went first and others have not moved. Either they will move in some months, or it will not be needed if openAI implements the necessary measures (search inside the training set and request for removal).

  2) The social media company comply, even if reluctantly, or