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The UK\u2019s data regulator has issued a warning to tech companies about protecting personal information when developing and deploying large language, generative AI<\/a> models.<\/p>\n Less than a week after Italy\u2019s data privacy regulator banned<\/a> ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations, the Information Commission\u2019s Office (ICO) published a blog post reminding organizations that data protection laws still apply when the personal information being processed comes from publicly accessible sources.<\/p>\n \u201cOrganisations developing or using generative AI should be considering their data protection obligations from the outset, taking a data protection by design and by default approach,\u201d said Stephen Almond, the ICO\u2019s director of technology and innovation, in the post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Almond also said that, for organizations processing personal data for the purpose of developing generative AI, there are various questions they should ask themselves, centering on: what their lawful basis for processing personal data is; how they can mitigate security risks; and how they will respond to individual rights requests.<\/p>\n \u201cThere really can be no excuse for getting the privacy implications of generative AI wrong,\u201d Almond said, adding that ChatGPT itself recently told him that \u201cgenerative AI, like any other technology, has the potential to pose risks to data privacy if not used responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll be working hard to make sure that organisations get it right,\u201d Almond said.<\/p>\n The ICO and the Italian data regulator are not the only ones to have recently raised concerns about the potential risk to the public that could be caused by generative AI.<\/p>\n