SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s data protection watchdog on Wednesday imposed a hefty monetary penalty on a startup for leaking a massive amount of personal information in the process of developing and commercializing a controversial female chatbot. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Scatter Lab, a Seoul-based startup, was ordered to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean developer of a controversial female chatbot said Friday it will discard all data and learning algorithms used in training the artificial intelligence (AI) platform amid mounting criticism over its data collection process and hate speech. Scatter Lab, a Seoul-based startup, said it has decided to pull [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Today’s chatbots are smarter, more responsive and more useful in businesses across sectors, and the artificial intelligence-powered tools are constantly evolving to even become friends with people. Emotional chatbots capable of having natural conversations with humans are nothing new among English speakers, but a new controversy over a South [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The creator of a social media-based artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot said Monday that it will temporarily suspend the service amid growing criticism over its use of discriminatory and offensive language. Lee Luda, the Facebook-based messenger chat, developed by Scatter Lab, a startup in Seoul, has been at the center [...]