German Regulators Warn About Ad Profiles Built From ChatGPT Conversations
· 2h ago · Originally reported by Notebookcheck
German regulators issued a warning about the practice of building advertising profiles from users' ChatGPT conversations. The concern centers on how AI chatbot interactions could be mined for targeting data without users fully understanding the implications.
Why it matters
As AI chatbots explore advertising models, regulators are signaling early that the same privacy rules apply — conversation data could become a new frontier for ad targeting and profiling.
Explain it like I’m new here
It's like if someone listened to every conversation you had with a helpful robot and used what they learned to sell you stuff, and now the government is saying that's not okay.
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