Suddenly announced: \"block\" ChatGPT! Fire the first shot in the human defense war!

Suddenly announced: "block" ChatGPT! Fire the first shot in the human defense war!

Italy fired the first shot in the defense of mankind?

Italy: ChatGPT banned from now on

Just now, Italy took action against ChatGPT, the hottest artificial intelligence in the world!

According to the latest news released by the Italian Data Protection Agency (DPA), the use of the chatbot ChatGPT will be banned from now on, and the OpenAI company that developed this platform will be restricted from processing Italian user information. At the same time, the Personal Data Protection Bureau started an investigation.

The Personal Data Protection Bureau believes that on March 20, the ChatGPT platform lost user conversation data and payment service payment information. In addition, the platform has not informed about the collection and processing of user information, and there is no legal basis for collecting and storing a large amount of personal information.

The Italian Data Protection Agency announced that OpenAI must notify the Italian Personal Data Protection Agency through its representatives in Europe within 20 days of the measures taken by the company to implement the requirements of the Protection Agency, otherwise it will be fined up to 20 million euros (about 155 million yuan) ) or a fine of 4% of the company's global annual turnover.

The EU has always been a global forerunner in terms of data protection, and it is also the most stringent regulator in the world at the implementation level. The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") launched by the European Union in May 2018 is currently the most comprehensive personal data privacy protection regulation, and it is even called "punitive regulation."

The "EU Business Environment Report 2019/2020" has conducted a survey. Statistics show that 96.1% of the interviewed companies believe that GDPR has increased business costs, of which 90.3% of the interviewed companies said that management costs have increased, followed by labor costs and customer service costs. .

According to a 2021 report by law firm DLA Piper, data protection authorities have enforced €272.5 million in fines since the EU GDPR came into force. The law firm found that in the past three years, the Italian Data Protection Agency (DPA) has issued about 69.3 million euros in fines, the highest in the European Union; the DPAs of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Spain have taken the top five. However, since January 2021, data privacy security incidents have occurred frequently around the world, and the fines issued by data protection bureaus in various countries have generally continued unabated.

Figure: Cumulative GDPR fines from May 2018 to January 2021

Not long ago, several technology company executives and top AI researchers, including Musk, were calling for a moratorium on the rapid development of powerful new AI tools.

A moratorium of six months or more would give the industry time to develop safety standards in AI design that would prevent potential harm from some of the riskiest AI technologies, these people said.

According to the official website of the Future of Life Institute, on March 22, the Future of Life Institute (Future of Life) issued an open letter to the whole society "Suspending Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Research", calling on all artificial intelligence laboratories to immediately suspend the comparison of GPT-4 Training of more powerful AI systems with a pause of at least 6 months.

The letter reads that "powerful artificial intelligence systems should only be developed if we are sure that their effects are positive and the risks are controllable." Musk has expressed concerns about artificial intelligence many times before, believing that artificial intelligence It is one of the greatest risks to human civilization in the future, and its threat level is far higher than that of car accidents, plane crashes, drug floods, etc., and even more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque, and thousands of tech giants and AI experts have signed the open letter.

The open letter also calls for AI laboratories and independent academics to jointly formulate and implement a set of shared security protocols for the design and development of advanced AI to ensure the security of AI.

At the same time, AI developers must work with policymakers to vigorously promote the development of strong AI governance systems, including: new regulatory agencies for AI; supervisory tracking and large computing power pools for advanced AI systems; help distinguish real data Data generated by AI, traceability and watermarking systems that track model leaks, etc.

At the end of the letter, it is mentioned that human beings can create a prosperous future with AI, but we must be prepared: "Let us enjoy the 'long summer' of AI instead of entering the 'autumn' unprepared."

OpenAI officials say they haven't started training GPT-5 yet. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that the company has long focused on security in its development and spent more than six months testing GPT-4 for safety before its release.

"In a sense, it's superfluous," Altman said. "I think we've had the loudest, most powerful and longest-running discussions on these issues."