Since its launch late last year , ChatGPT may have experienced a meteoric rise , but , in March , it was temporarily banned in Italy over data security concerns .

The country launched an investigation into OpenAI after a cybersecurity breach led to people being shown excerpts of other users ’ ChatGPT conversations and their financial information .

With millions of monthly users , ChatGPT – like other large language models – is trained on vast quantities of information available on the internet .

" We actively work to reduce personal data in training our AI systems like ChatGPT , because we want our AI to learn about the world , not about private individuals ," OpenAI said in a statement .

But the Italian watchdog cited concerns about how the chatbot processed information in its statement : " We expect all companies active in the EU to respect EU data protection rules . The enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation is the responsibility of EU data protection authorities ," a European Commission spokesperson said .

14 May 2023