How to ensure the fair use of the data that powers conversational, generative AI tools like ChatGPT

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Synopsis
Technologies like conversational, generative AI should be made more accessible to all Indians. This should happen in a policy context that protects data rights, and has robust mechanisms to anonymise and share personal data safely. This will make the use of conversational, generative AI a win-win for citizens, government, and private entities.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has captured the world’s imagination and sprinted to attract millions of users in a short time. ChatGPT states that it is an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (generative pre trained transformer) language model. It uses deep-learning techniques to generate human-like responses to text inputs in a conversational manner. ChatGPT was trained using a dataset of hundreds of billions of words. Microsoft has