Senior Data Protection Specialist Jon Baines has been quoted in the New Scientist, in relation to a story about the widespread use of a civil service proprietary AI chatbot known as "Redbox". The journal reports that although thousands of civil servants are making use of the generative AI application, government departments say that they do not retain records of what prompts have been inputted.
Jon was asked about this inability to retrieve chat logs, and said "I find it surprising that the government says it can’t retrieve prompts inputted into its internal GPT systems" and that while courts have ruled that public bodies don’t have to keep public records prior to archiving, “good information governance would suggest that it can still be very important to retain records, especially where they might have been used to develop or inform policy".
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