A service created by Microsoft-backed Open AI that can create films in response to text cues was the subject of an inquiry, the Italian data protection office announced on Friday.
The regulator, Garante, requested clarification from Open AI on whether its disclosure to users and non-users regarding the data it uses for its product, Sora, complies with EU standards.
A request for comment from OpenAI was not immediately answered.
The Italian regulator is one of the bloc’s most proactive authorities in assessing AI platform compliance with the EU’s data privacy regime. Last year it banned ChatGPT over alleged breaches of the bloc’s privacy rules.
In its statement it did not level any specific accusation against OpenAI but said it was looking at the potential implications that Sora might have on the use of personal data in the EU and in Italy in particular.
Among other requests, it asked OpenAI to provide information on how the algorithm was trained, which data were collected and used to train it, and whether the service is already available to users in the EU and Italy.
