“We must be able to accommodate innovations”, but they must “fulfill guarantees”, considers the Renaissance deputy Éric Bothorel

“We must be able to accommodate innovations. But these innovations must, once they reach a mature stage, be able to fulfill guarantees of the same level that we ask of others”, said Wednesday, April 12 on franceinfo Éric Bothorel, Renaissance deputy for Côtes-d’Armor, who filed a complaint on Wednesday against ChatGPT with the Cnil for possible violations of the European General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD). The MP posted screenshots of his interactions with ChatGPT, which show the chatbot making numerous errors when asked about his profile.

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Éric Bothorel tested the conversational robot “on three successive attempts” and got “three different dates of birth, different places of birth”. As there is “obligations in law to provide information that is not misleading information for those who process data”the elected official estimated “normal to seize the independent authority, the Cnil, to avoid that there is a jurisprudence which is created on Twitter”.

Do not “succumb to the sirens of Elon Musk”

“I don’t think the right answer is to disallow ChatGPT”, says the deputy. He considers himself as “someone who welcomes innovation quite favorably and wants to stimulate it”. His approach is not to say, “At the end, when the CNIL has said that it was not good, ChatGPT will have to be banned. It is quite the opposite”.

“ChatGPT will certainly be, in certain respects, for certain uses, a formidable tool with increased possibilities for a certain number of professions”.

Éric Bothorel, Renaissance MP

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Éric Bothorel adds that we must not “to succumb to the sirens of Elon Musk who would like to run the 100 meters by asking Usain Bolt to start fifteen meters late. tools that are likely to compete with OpenEI”the platform that develops ChatGPT.