The regulatory agency of the European Union announced on Thursday (September 12th) that it is investigating Google's artificial intelligence model PaLM2. The main focus of the investigation is whether the model complies with the regulations on personal data protection. The protection of personal data is increasingly being emphasized by regulatory agencies around the world, especially in regions like the European Union where data privacy requirements are very high.
Caixin Media reported on September 12th that the European Union's regulatory institutions announced on Thursday, September 12th that they are investigating a artificial intelligence model developed by Google, due to concerns about whether the model complies with the strict data privacy regulations of the European Union.
The Data Protection Commission of Ireland has stated that it is conducting an investigation into Google's PaLM2 large-scale model. This is part of the European Union's broader efforts in regulating artificial intelligence. Regulatory agencies in the other 27 EU countries are also reviewing how artificial intelligence systems handle personal data.
Since Google's European headquarters is located in Dublin, the Data Protection Commission of Ireland is the main regulatory agency for the company in terms of EU privacy rules, regulating Google's data privacy in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The commission stated that its investigation is examining whether Google has assessed whether the data processing of PaLM2 may pose a high risk to the "rights and freedoms" of individuals in the European Union.
Data protection
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the protection of personal data is increasingly being emphasized by regulatory agencies around the world, especially in regions like the European Union where data privacy requirements are very high.
Large language models like PaLM2 are massive data repositories that can be used as building blocks for artificial intelligence systems. Google currently uses PaLM2 to power a range of generative artificial intelligence services, including email summarization. Since June of last year, Google's suite of products has introduced the PaLM2 model.
However, these large-scale language models are more likely to be targeted by regulatory agencies due to the diversity of their data.
For example, earlier this month, Irish regulators took action against Elon Musk's social media platform X. X company ultimately agreed to stop using personal information of European users to train its AI chatbot Grok, and committed to deleting personal data from public posts of European users collected from its social media platform between May 7, 2024 and August 1.
Earlier this month, Irish regulators stated that Elon Musk's social media platform X has agreed to permanently stop processing user data for its AI chatbot Grok.
A month ago, the regulatory agency took X to court and filed an emergency application with the High Court, requesting X to 'suspend, restrict, or prohibit' the processing of personal data contained in user public posts. The platform complied with this request afterwards.
In addition, after facing pressure from Irish regulators, Meta platform also suspended its plan to use content posted by European users to train the latest version of its large-scale language model. The Italian data privacy regulator temporarily banned ChatGPT last year due to privacy breaches and required the developer, OpenAI, to address the concerns.
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