EU Criticizes ChatGPT for Failing to Meet GDPR Standards

The GDPR watchdog, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), has released a progress report from its “GPT taskforce” aimed at assessing OpenAI’s basic compliance of ChatGPT with the EU’s GDPR.

Even though there have been some positive changes regarding the issue in various states and the adoption of several measures to increase transparency, the EDPB concluded that these measures are still insufficient to meet the GDPR requirements.

The EDPB’s key concern is with the quality of ChatGPT’s outputs. The report notes that the model can provide biased and fabricated information. This increases the probability of users passively accepting these inaccuracies as true facts.

This scrutiny comes after actions that Italy’s data protection agency undertook in January 2024 when it clarified that ChatGPT continues to breach Italian and EU data protection legislation.

The EDPB also noted that the size of ChatGPT, with billions of data points and approximately one trillion parameters, does not reduce OpenAI’s obligations to adhere to the GDPR. They made it clear that there is no way an organization can use technical impossibility as an excuse for failure to meet these requirements.

OpenAI has yet to provide a solution on how it will meet the requirements, especially when facing regulatory hurdles in Europe because there are major technical barriers.

Reflecting on the recent EDPB report, it is crucial to stress the significance of adhering to strict data accuracy and privacy requirements for an AI model like ChatGPT despite profound technical obstacles.

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