OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

Privacy activist group noyb (None of Your Business) has filed a complaint against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT service violates GDPR rules since its information cannot be corrected if found inaccurate.

In the filing [PDF] with the Austrian data protection authority, the group alleges ChatGPT was asked to provide the data of birth of a given data subject. The subject, whose name is redacted in the complaint, is a public figure, so some information about him is online, but his date of birth is not. ChatGPT, therefore, had a go at inferring it but returned the wrong date.

The subject then filed a request to have the incorrect data erased, according to noyb's complaint, which alleges there was no way to prevent an inaccurate date of birth from being returned without blocking all information held on the subject.

According to the complaint: "The controller does not seem to have ...