Late last year, users of the Replika “virtual companion” started to complain that the bot was coming on too strong with explicit texts and images — sexual harassment, some alleged. | AFP
The General Data Protection Regulation is the bane of big tech firms, whose repeated rule breaches have landed them with billions of dollars in fines, and the Italian decision suggests it could still be a potent foe for the latest generation of chatbots.
But experts warn that there is plenty for regulators to be worried about, particularly when the bots get so good that it becomes impossible to tell them apart from humans.Right now, the European Union is the centre for discussions on regulation of these new bots — its AI Act has been grinding through the corridors of power for many months and could be finalized this year.
“At some point we will see high tension between the GDPR and generative AI models,” German lawyer Dennis Hillemann, an expert in the field, told AFP.
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