{"id":84912,"date":"2023-09-22T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=84912"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:11:50","slug":"polands-regulator-opens-probe-into-chatgpt-after-a-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polands-regulator-opens-probe-into-chatgpt-after-a-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland&#8217;s regulator opens probe into ChatGPT after a complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s data protection authority has opened an investigation into a complaint about OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember we mentioned that regulatory AI landscape in Poland is in its infancy? Here&#8217;s another minor, yet significant development.<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Personal Data Protection Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UODOgov_pl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UODOgov_pl<\/a>) is investigating a complaint concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChatGPT?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChatGPT<\/a>. The complainant alleges that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpenAI?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpenAI<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 secgen.eu (@secgen_eu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/secgen_eu\/status\/1704766884741017677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The complainant <a href=\"https:\/\/uodo.gov.pl\/pl\/138\/2823\">accused<\/a> Sam Altman&#8217;s company of processing data in an illegal and unreliable manner. He also noted that data-collection rules are opaque.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the agency, Jan Nowak, stressed that this is not the first time questions have arisen about the chatbot&#8217;s compliance with European data protection and privacy principles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;In this case, the applicant turned to the Personal Data Protection Office after his notices [&#8230;] were not addressed by OpenAI. It turned out that ChatGPT, in response to the request, generated false information about the applicant,&#8221; the official explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, the chatbot gave the user &#8220;evasive, misleading and internally contradictory responses,&#8221; which &#8220;only heightened concerns about the legality and transparency of the data processing by the creator of this tool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Nowak acknowledged that a potential lawsuit against OpenAI could be difficult, as it concerns a company registered outside the EU.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has encountered problems in Europe before. In March, the Italian regulator ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/italy-blocks-chatgpt-over-privacy-concerns\">block ChatGPT<\/a> for &#8220;illegal collection of personal data&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Germany later announced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/european-regulators-clamp-down-on-chatgpt\">about a possible suspension of the tool<\/a>, and authorities in France and Ireland decided to wait for the Italian colleagues&#8217; results. The UK&#8217;s Information Commissioner\u001ers Office issued a warning about the inadmissibility of using personal data for developing chatbots.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada also <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/canada-launches-privacy-probe-into-chatgpt\">launched<\/a> an inquiry into the OpenAI project.<\/p>\n<p>In August, global ChatGPT traffic fell by 3.2%, to 1.43 billion visits, according to Similarweb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s data protection authority has opened an investigation into a complaint about OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1201,733,1190,1363,36],"class_list":["post-84912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatbots","tag-europe","tag-openai","tag-poland","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84914,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84912\/revisions\/84914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}