Federal and provincial privacy watchdogs say OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws

Commissioners from four of Canada’s privacy watchdogs have found that OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws while developing and training early models of its large language model, ChatGPT. In a news conference on Wednesday morning, Philippe Dufresne, the privacy commissioner of Canada, was joined by his provincial counterparts from British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec to deliver the findings of each office’s investigation into the AI company. The commissioners said that OpenAI had violated vari