{"id":3593,"date":"2023-06-27T08:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2023-06-27T08:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:52:30","slug":"congress-us-congress-limits-use-of-chatgpt-what-is-restricted-whats-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=3593","title":{"rendered":"Congress: US Congress limits use of ChatGPT: What is restricted, what&#8217;s not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-101288792,imgsize-105234.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The US has become the latest country to limit the use of generative AI-powered chatbots for work. The US House has formulated a set of rules around how congressional offices can use popular AI chatbot <!-- -->ChatGPT<!-- --> launched by Microsoft-backed <!-- -->OpenAI<br \/>In a notice to House staffers, Catherine L. Szpindor, chief administrative officer, wrote that offices using the chatbot are &#8220;only authorised to use the ChatGPT Plus version of the product.&#8221; <br \/>This is because the version \u2013 which is available from OpenAl as a subscription of $20 per month \u2013 incorporates \u201cimportant privacy features that are necessary to protect House data.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>What is restricted<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Houose offices are not authorised to incorporate it into regular workflow.<br \/>The staff is not allowed to use ChatGPT with sensitive data. &#8220;For example, do not paste into the chatbot any blocks of text that have not already been made public,&#8221; the notice said.<br \/>The staff is told to use ChatGPT with privacy settings enabled from \u201cSettings\u201d on the main menu of the product.<br \/>&#8220;These settings ensure that your history is not preserved and your interactions are not incorporated back into the large language model. These settings are disabled by default,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"strong\">What is allowed<\/span><br \/>According to the notice, the use of ChatGPT can be done for research and evaluation only. Moreover, House offices are told that the staff can experiment with the tool &#8220;on how it may be useful to congressional operations<br \/><span class=\"strong\">AI regulation<\/span><br \/>The development comes a few days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on <!-- -->Congress<!-- --> to pass new legislation to regulate the AI industry. <br \/>\u201cAI could be our most spectacular innovation yet, a force that could ignite a new era of technological advancement, scientific discovery, and industrial might,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cThe first issue we must tackle is encouraging, not stifling, innovation. But if people don\u2019t think innovation can be done safely, that will stifle AI\u2019s development and even prevent us from moving forward,\u201d he added.<br \/>Other technology giants like Apple and <!-- -->Samsung<!-- --> have restricted the use of ChatGPT-like tools citing fears that confidential data might leak through the tools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) \n      if (!isFBCampaignActive) \n        return;<\/p>\n<p>      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) \n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() \n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        ;\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      )(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js', n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    ;<\/p>\n<p>    function loadGtagEvents(isGoogleCampaignActive) \n      if (!isGoogleCampaignActive) \n        return;<\/p>\n<p>      var id = document.getElementById('toi-plus-google-campaign');\n      if (id) \n        return;<\/p>\n<p>      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) \n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        t.id = 'toi-plus-google-campaign';\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      )(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074', n, t, s);\n    ;<\/p>\n<p>    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || ;\n    var TimesApps = window.TimesApps;\n    TimesApps.toiPlusEvents = function(config) \n      var isConfigAvailable = \"toiplus_site_settings\" in f && \"isFBCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings && \"isGoogleCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings;\n      var isPrimeUser = window.isPrime;\n      if (isConfigAvailable && !isPrimeUser) \n        loadGtagEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n        loadFBEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isFBCampaignActive);\n       else \n        var JarvisUrl=\"https:\/\/jarvis.indiatimes.com\/v1\/feeds\/toi_plus\/site_settings\/643526e21443833f0c454615?db_env=published\";\n        window.getFromClient(JarvisUrl, function(config)\n          if (config) \n            loadGtagEvents(config?.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n            loadFBEvents(config?.isFBCampaignActive);<\/p>\n<p>        )<\/p>\n<p>    ;\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n  );<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/gadgets-news\/us-congress-limits-use-of-chatgpt-what-is-restricted-whats-not\/articleshow\/101288786.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The US has become the latest country to limit the use of generative AI-powered chatbots for work. 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