The privacy commissioners for Ottawa, Alberta, B.C. and Quebec said current laws are not up to the job in the age of AI. Their joint three-year investigation found that OpenAI indiscriminately scraped Canadians’ private information without consent from every corner of the web to train its models in its rush to launch ChatGPT. (The Logic)

Talking point: OpenAI has since changed the way it operates, and the federal commissioner Philippe Dufresne said it’s now conditionally in line with Ottawa’s laws. Provinces, though, say this issue can’t be resolved because of the consent requirements in their privacy laws. Alberta’s commissioner, Diane McLeod, said the investigation shed light on one of the biggest privacy challenges in history as personal information is collected in ways that were unimaginable when the laws were written. AI Minister Evan Solomon has said he’s working on updating Canada’s federal privacy law, but has not said what changes he plans to make or when the bill will be tabled.