UK watchdog warns chatbot developers over data protection laws

Concerns have arisen over tech firms using masses of unfiltered personal data culled from the internet to train' generative AI

Britain's data watchdog has issued a warning to tech firms about the use of people's personal information to develop chatbots after concerns that the underlying technology is trained on large quantities of unfiltered material scraped from the web.

The intervention from the Information Commissioner's Office came after its Italian counterpart temporarily banned ChatGPT over data privacy concerns.