ChatGPT has answers for almost everything, but there’s one answer we may not know for a while: will this tool turn out to be the genie its creators regret taking out of the bottle over unintended consequences in AI for cybersecurity?
A malicious fake ChatGPT Chrome extension on Google's official web store targets Facebook Ad accounts for takeover, leveraging the chatbot's popularity. Extension has been downloaded more than 2,000 times.
As with most technological developments, there are two sides of the coin. ChatGPT may present businesses with a never-ending pool of opportunities, but the same resource can be exploited to help criminals infiltrate systems more effectively.
Lists of unfamiliar chat titles were suddenly appearing in the ChatGPT website's sidebar. It turns out that a ChatGPT bug was displaying chat histories of other users randomly to other people.
ChatGPT is at least temporarily offline in Italy, as the Italian DPA has concluded that the AI tool may have violated data privacy laws during a recent data leak. OpenAI has been given 20 days to address privacy concerns, or it may face substantial fines.
ChatGPT will put information that is shared by users into its training model. It was reported that Samsung employees have fed it some source code and other sensitive data.
CNIL said that it is following up on "several" privacy complaints, and Spain is looking to put the ChatGPT topic on the Plenary of the European Data Protection Committee's discussion schedule.
OpenAI can get out of the ChatGPT ban if it improves transparency, allows users to view and delete stored data, and implements added safeguards to protect minors. April 30 is the earliest point at which the service could return to Italy.
Germany is querying ChatGPT's GDPR compliance in terms of required access to stored personal information, its efforts to inform data subjects of their rights under the law, and how it is handling the data of minors.
ChatGPT, is now allowing users to disable chat history. However, any prior conversations remain logged and available to the company's AI models, and chats will still be retained for 30 days before deletion in order to "fight abuse."