Privacy commissioner to release results of investigation into OpenAI’s ChatGPT

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OTTAWA — The federal privacy commissioner, along with three provincial privacy czars, are set to release today the findings from a joint investigation into how OpenAI’s ChatGPT respects the country’s privacy laws.

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Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne announced the launch of the investigation into the company’s chatbot three years earlier after receiving a complaint regarding its use of personal information “without consent.”

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Joining Dufresne at today’s announcement, expected to take place at 11 a.m. EST, will be privacy commissioners from Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia.

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The release of the results come amid calls from children’s health organizations and online safety advocates for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to introduce regulations targeting AI chatbots, citing growing concerns over the technology’s impact on children.

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OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has come under heavy scrutiny by leaders in Canada after acknowledging that it did not alert Canadian police to exchanges a shooter who opened fire on school children and family members in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., had months earlier with the chatbot, which the company deemed warranted an account suspension.

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Federal Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon and other ministers met with company representatives to discuss concerns around their safety protocols in the wake of that revelation.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also released a letter of apology for its decision not to alert police to those exchanges.

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