The latest country to limit the use of AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT is the US as the House has set a limit on the use of ChatGPT by staff, the media has reported. The House has a set of rules around how congressional offices can use OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT backed by Microsoft. In a memo to House staffers on Monday morning, the chamber's Chief Administrative Officer Catherine L Szpindor wrote that offices are "only authorised" to use the paid ChatGPT Plus, says a report by Axios. The staff is not quthorised to use the free version of ChatGPT, which unlike the $20-per-month subscription version of ChatGPT Plus " does not incorporate important privacy features" that are necessary to protect House data."
This also means that House offices are not authorised to incorporate ChatGPT into a regular workflow. The staff is also not allowed to use the chatbot with sensitive data. "For example, do not paste into the chatbot any blocks of text that have not already been made public," the notice said. Offices should only input "non-sensitive" data, Szpindor added, instructing staffers not to "paste into the chatbot any blocks of text that have not already been made public."
To recall, Italy was the first country to slap ChatGPT with a ban, citing concerns over data collection. The Italian Data Protection Authority banned ChatGPT over a lack of guidelines to prevent minors from using it.
This comes amid OpenAI CEO Sam Altman been calling for stricter regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) for months. The creator of ChatGPT has been lobbying the European Union (EU) to reduce regulations for AI, a recent report said. To recall, OpenAI had "threatened" to leave the EU over AI Act a couple of weeks back, but later said it has no plans to do so.
The EU is currently in the middle of bringing in the AI Act, which is a rigorous set of rules intended to protect citizens from the ongoing advancements of AI. According to a report by Time, OpenAI has been lobbying the EU to reduce particular sections of the AI Act before it becomes a law.
This development also comes at a time when the dangers of AI are being discussed and how AI might make certain jobs obsolete. Recently, human resource (HR) professionals were also found to be using OpenAI's viral AI chatbot ChatGPT to do almost everything at work, including crafting termination letters for employees.
HR professionals are currently high in demand for their skills in managing termination processes with tact to lessen the impact on employees. Since some conversations can be difficult, so the HR professionals are turning to AI for help, a report by ZDNet had said.