MP Eric Bothorel (Renaissance) filed a complaint on Wednesday against ChatGPT with the Cnil, guardian of privacy, for possible breaches of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), he announced on Twitter.
This former socialist, keen on new technologies, published screenshots of his exchanges with ChatGPT, which show that the conversational robot makes many errors when questioned on his profile.
ChatGPT falsely claims that Eric Bothorel was born on November 20, 1961 in Morlaix (or January 2, 1975 in Guingamp), that he is mayor of Lannion or Saint-Brieuc, that he is elected in the 2nd constituency of Côtes-d ‘Armor, that he worked in journalism, at Orange, in the communication group Havas, or as a teacher.
In reality, Mr. Bothorel was born on October 20, 1966 in Paimpol, has never been mayor, is a deputy for the 5th district of Côtes-d’Armor and was an executive in a subsidiary of General Electric.
“Is it normal that what looks like a tool that processes personal data disseminates erroneous data on our fellow citizens? It seems problematic to me,” Eric Bothorel told AFP. “I don’t say Haro on ChatGPT,” he clarified, however.
According to him, the CNIL must decide on the adequacy of current law to the evolution of artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT appeared in November and quickly impressed with its ability to hold coherent exchanges and answer complex questions. But this type of artificial intelligence, called generative, only works by predicting plausible answers.
By the very admission of its designer, the start-up OpenAI, it tends to produce false information, which could contravene the GDPR which states that information about people must be “accurate”.
Two complaints against ChatGPT have already been filed in France by lawyer Zoé Vilain and developer David Libeau.
Around the world, several people have accused ChatGPT of making up serious information about their account.
The robot is also the subject of a temporary block in Italy, and an investigation in Canada, still on the subject of personal data.
In France, the Minister Delegate for Digital Jean-Noël Barrot affirmed at the beginning of April that ChatGPT did not respect the GDPR in his opinion, but that it was better to “frame” it rather than ban it.
04/12/2023 19:27:19 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
