I recently noted that Italy, noted for its exquisite cuisine, was banning the use of insect flour in pizza and pasta produced within its country.
Now the country is temporarily blocking ChatGPT over data privacy concerns.
Italy said on Friday it was temporarily blocking ChatGPT over data privacy concerns, the first western country to take such action against the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.The country’s Data Protection Authority said US firm OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, had no legal basis to justify “the mass collection and storage of personal data for the purpose of ‘training’ the algorithms underlying the operation of the platform”.ChatGPT caused a global sensation when it was released last year for its ability to generate essays, songs, exams and even news articles from brief prompts.But critics have long fretted that it was unclear where ChatGPT and its competitors got their data or how they processed it.
The move comes as billionaire Elon Musk and a range of other tech experts called for a pause in the development of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
An open letter, signed by more than 1,000 people so far including Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, was prompted by the release of GPT-4 from Microsoft-backed firm OpenAI.The company says its latest model is much more powerful than the previous version, which was used to power ChatGPT, a bot capable of generating tracts of text from the briefest of prompts.”AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity,” said the open letter titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments”.”Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” it said.
The concerns are valid, as there appears to already be a chatbot casualty. A Belgian man has reportedly died by suicide after a series of increasingly worrying conversations with an AI chatbot over global warming.
The program encouraged him to commit suicide.
A Belgian father reportedly tragically committed suicide following conversations about climate change with an artificial intelligence chatbot that was said to have encouraged him to sacrifice himself to save the planet.“Without Eliza [the chatbot], he would still be here,” the man’s widow, who declined to have her name published, told Belgian outlet La Libre.Six weeks before his reported death, the unidentified father of two was allegedly speaking intensively with a chatbot on an app called Chai.The app’s bots are based on a system developed by nonprofit research lab EleutherAI as an “open-source alternative” to language models released by OpenAI that are employed by companies in various sectors, from academia to healthcare.The chatbot under fire was trained by Chai Research co-founders William Beauchamp and Thomas Rianlan, Vice reports, adding that the Chai app counts 5 million users.“The second we heard about this [suicide], we worked around the clock to get this feature implemented,” Beauchamp told Vice about an updated crisis intervention feature.
Clearly, the program utilizes humanity-hating leftist dogma as a primary source of information.
And if human sacrifices are required to “save the planet,” then this is more proof that “climate crisis” is a cult and not a science.
Italy may once again be leading the way in terms of countering developments and trends harmful to its citizens.
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