OpenAI hit with privacy complaint in Austria, potential EU law breach

Austrian data rights group Noyb filed a privacy complaint against OpenAI, accusing its ChatGPT of providing false information and potentially breaching EU privacy regulations.

The prominent artificial intelligence (AI) developer OpenAI has been placed at the center of a new privacy complaint launched by a data rights protection advocacy group in Austria.

On April 29, Noyb opened the complaint alleging that OpenAI has not fixed false information provided by its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The group said these actions, or lack thereof, could be in breach of privacy rules in the European Union.

According to the group, the complainant of the case, an unnamed public figure, asked OpenAI’s chatbot for information about himself and was consistently provided with incorrect information.

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