“We need regulation. We are on the right track, though we have the Digital India Act coming,” said Jibu Elias, head of content and research at India AI, the national AI portal. Italy has temporarily blocked ChatGPT over data privacy concerns, becoming the first western country to take such action against the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The country’s data protection authority said US firm OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, had no legal basis to justify the massive collection and storage of personal data for the purpose of “training” the algorithms underlying the operation of the platform “.