Italy bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns

Move prompted by a recent data breach that exposed the personal information of ChatGPT users

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Italy's privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns
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Italy's privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns

Italy's data protection authority has temporarily banned the use of ChatGPT, a popular AI service from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, in the country while it investigates the US company's collection of p...

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