Luxembourg banks seek legal clarity on use of generative AI

Luxembourg’s banking sector is asking data protection and financial services authorities to provide more clarity on the use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Presenting its survey on the use of ChatGPT, bank sector group ABBL on Thursday said 38 per cent of bank employees are currently blocked from using such tools, which is significantly more than the average of 24 percent for the sector as a whole.

Disruptors like ChatGPT pose new legal challenges

Communication technology continues its rapid development, but it’s inevitably affected by the world that it serves, so it must contend with concerns about sustainability and the impact of the economic situation, as well as the legal context. The emergence of ChatGPT as a new form of artificial intelligence might promise much, but it may misuse others’ content, Deloitte argues in its outlook for Telecoms, Media and Technology, or TMT.

ChatGPT and the world of finance

During my student days in the late 1980s, I was one of the few students who had access to an Apple II computer. A big difference between Apple’s word processor then and the average word processor on a PC was WYSIWYG, acronym for What You See Is What You Get. On the screen, the document was visible just as it was printed. Even then, Apple was way ahead of the competition.