Diving into Italy's ChatGPT ban

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Here's what we're covering today:

• Privacy concerns impacting ChatGPT in Italy

• Hate taking professional headshots like we do? Use AI instead.

• AI landscape shifts that could be impacting enterprises

Let’s get to it! 👇

TODAY'S PERSPECTIVE

Banned ChatGPT in Italy

The Italian government banned ChatGPT last week on data privacy concerns, and the potential violation of GDPR (the EU data privacy laws) has other European governments taking a closer look.

Now, there’s debate as to whether the ban was warranted. And whether it will stick around.

But this circles back to an issue we’ve been discussing for months: the loose rules and policies tools like ChatGPT have around data and how it’s used.

The TLDR on the “ChatGPT” ecosystem:

• ChatGPT (the app) shares your data back with the OpenAI team for feedback and even potentially future model training (unless you explicitly opt-out)

• ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-3.5 (the APIs) do not share your data back with OpenAI unless you explicitly opt-in

• 3rd party products that use OpenAI’s APIs will be subject to OpenAI’s API policies + their own (so it’s best to check them)

Data privacy is a big open question, especially for businesses. This might be a good wedge for OpenAI’s nearest competitor, Anthropic, to make a splash. Who coincidentally just updated their terms March 29th, to explicitly say:

"We will not train our machine learning models on any Prompts or Results that are not publicly available”

We're watching this closely.

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LINKS

For your reading list 📚

Updates in the AI landscape that are impacting enterprises...

• Bloomberg announced its own BloombergGPT - an LLM trained on both general and financial data

• NVIDIA announced their own set of foundation models recently: Nemo (Language Model), Picasso (Image Model), and BioNemo (Biology Language Model). They're starting to roll out access via their developer toolkit.

And if you're really nerdy...

• This is a great read for copyright issues and the legal impacts for generative AI companies

• 40% of the current YC batch (major startup accelerator) was AI companies - and this blog does a great job at analyzing them

That's all!

We'll see you again on Thursday. Thoughts, feedback and questions are much appreciated - respond here or shoot us a note at [email protected]. 

Cheers,

🪄 The AI Exchange Team