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Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by throwaway59582 on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:24AM (#35388493)
>Here's a classic for you, one of the early incidents which lead to this kind of regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Bradford_sweets_poisoning

I don't see how said regulation would have helped in this case, the shop owner simply mistook fake sugar for arsenic, it's not like he decided to sell arsenic-flavored candies.

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Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by not_your_vase on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:37AM (#35388729)
Correct. He was selling candies filled with (what he thought was) gypsum. Yum.

(He didn't mix up the sugar with arsenic. He mixed up the gypsum.)

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