OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has blocked access to its text-based chatbot AI for Ukrainians. According to the company, this was done due to sanctions, which also apply to the Russian-occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions, as well as the annexed Crimea.
This is stated in the letter received by the Ministry of Digitization from OpenAI.
“Because of the sanctions, they have to block “LDNR”/Crimea. They don’t know how to distinguish them from customers from the rest of Ukraine,” said Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Oleksandr Bornyakov in a comment to the Ukrainian edition of Forbes.
ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence laboratory launched a few years ago with the financial support of Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs. The bot works on the basis of a “big language model” – artificial intelligence software that has been trained to predict the next word in a sentence by analyzing huge volumes of Internet text and finding patterns through trial and error.
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Since its launch, the free version of the chatbot has been very popular – more than 1 million people used it in the first week. However, access to it is limited in some countries — in particular, in Russia, Belarus, Iran, Afghanistan and… Ukraine.
The Ministry of Digitization sent an appeal to OpenAI, but a copy of the response was not shared with journalists. So far, persistent Ukrainians have started to look for workarounds to use II-technologies (VPN, registration through an American/European number or access through the services of third-party publishers).
According to insiders, Microsoft is seriously interested in AI technologies OpenAI and is negotiating to invest $10 billion in the startup. The funding, joined by other venture capital firms, will value OpenAI at $29 billion. Microsoft previously announced that it would integrate ChatGPT with its Bing search engine and make the chatbot publicly available on its Azure cloud service.
ChatGPT has been banned from New York schools. Teachers do not distinguish between chatbot texts and works written by students
