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No, it’s not an April Fools’ joke: OpenAI has started geoblocking access to its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, in Italy. The move follows an order by the local data protection authority Friday that it must stop processing Italians’ data for the ChatGPT service. In a statement which appears online to users with an Italian IP

In a massive boost to ChatGPT’s capabilities, OpenAI introduced several plugins for the chatbot language model this week. These would enable ChatGPT to access the latest information instead of being restricted to only its training data. However, concerns over the potential ways it might misfire loom over the release of the new plugins too. Even

OpenAI was forced to take its wildly-popular ChatGPT bot offline for emergency maintenance on Tuesday after a user was able to exploit a bug in the system to recall the titles from other users' chat histories. On Friday the company announced its initial findings from the incident. In Tuesday's incident, users posted screenshots on Reddit

March 23, 2023 11:29 AM used 3/23/2023 Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More OpenAI today announced its support of new third-party plugins for ChatGPT, and it already has Twitter buzzing about the company’s potential platform play. In a

Ars Technica As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model's emergent capabilities—including "power-seeking behavior," self-replication, and self-improvement. While the testing group found that GPT-4 was "ineffective at the autonomous replication task," the nature of the

TGIF, my TechCrunch homies. It’s that time of week again — the time for Week in Review, where we recap the past five days in tech news. As always, lots happened, so let’s dig in sans delay. Well, perhaps with a slight delay. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that TechCrunch Early Stage, TechCrunch’s

Image Credit: OpenAI The makers of ChatGPT, OpenAI, have released a classifier to help people determine whether text was created by AI or a human. The tool could help mitigate false claims that AI was used or detect when AI is impersonating a human. Unfortunately, the tool is not very reliable but in our tests

Aiming to monetize what’s become a viral phenomenon, OpenAI today launched a new pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, its text-generating AI that can write convincingly human-like essays, poems, emails, lyrics and more. Called ChatGPT Plus and starting at $20 per month, ChatGPT Pro delivers a number of benefits over the base-level ChatGPT...