UK may ban Snapchat's My AI feature, here's why

Snap Inc. launched the My AI feature for its photo-sharing platform, Snapchat in April. The feature, which is powered by OpenAI’s technology, can conversate with Snapchat users. The ChatGPT-powered feature is facing the risk of getting banned in the UK. The concern about the feature is that it may be putting the privacy of children at risk. Earlier, Snapchat users have also complained about the ChatGPT integration that remains pinned to the top of their chats.Why the UK may ban Snapchat’s My AI featureThe UK’s privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has a warning for Snapchat. In a blog post, the regulator reported that the company doesn’t seem to have carried out a proper risk assessment concerning child privacy.The regulator noted: “Investigation provisionally finds Snap failed to adequately identify and assess the risks to several million ‘My AI’ users in the UK including children aged 13 to 17 […]. The ICO’s investigation provisionally found the risk assessment Snap conducted before it launched ‘My AI’ did not adequately assess the data protection risks posed by the generative AI technology, particularly to children. The assessment of data protection risk is particularly important in this context which involves the use of innovative
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