Italy's government privacy watchdog announced on Friday that it is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach. The move comes as the country investigates a possible violation of the European Union's strict data protection rules. The Italian Data Protection Authority said that it is taking provisional action "until ChatGPT respects privacy," including temporarily limiting the company from processing Italian users' data. Italy's government privacy watchdog announced The AI chatbot, developed by US-based OpenAI, is powered by large language models that mimic human writing styles based on a vast amount of digital books and online writings they have ingested. However, concerns about privacy violations and potential data breaches have been mounting. Some public schools and universities around the world have blocked the ChatGPT website from their local networks over student plagiarism concerns. The Italian watchd...