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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, April 9 (Xinhua)-- the Canadian Privacy Commissioner's office is investigating OpenAI's generative chat app ChatGPT after the watchdog received a complaint accusing ChatGPT of collecting, using and disclosing personal information without consent, Theregister reported.

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said: "artificial intelligence technology and its impact on privacy are the focus areas of my office. We need to keep up with and stay ahead of fast-growing technological advances, which is one of my main concerns as a commissioner."

ChatGPT is driven by the GPT-3.5 large language model, which is trained by crawling large amounts of text from the Internet. In these texts, it is likely to contain some personal information, which authorities fear may be obtained by the person who inquired about the robot. OpenAI has created a filter for its older GPT-3 model to prevent it from outputting information such as people's phone numbers. Although this personal information may have been publicly published on the Internet before it can be collected by the robot during training, ChatGPT could be used as a tool to help people find the information more easily.

In addition, ChatGPT has other bigger privacy issues-people may hand over private and sensitive information when using the robot, but it is not clear how OpenAI stores or uses the data. Some companies such as Amazon have warned employees not to share confidential information, such as proprietary code, with ChatGPT.

The Office of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner said that since this is an ongoing investigation, no other details can be provided at this time.

According to CTOnews.com, Italy was the first country to announce an investigation into ChatGPT to determine whether the software illegally collected data from its citizens and whether the technology would cause harm to minors under the age of 13. The country's Commission for the Protection of personal data even temporarily banned ChatGPT. At the same time, other countries, including Germany, France and Ireland, are monitoring the situation to determine whether ChatGPT violates GDPR rules.

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