Italian authorities are temporarily banning ChatGPT while it investigates the company behind the AI tool. Italy is considered the first government to take such a measure against ChatGPT.

After Microsoft's powerful AI chatbot verbally attacked people, and even compared one person to Hitler, the company has decided to rein in the technology until it works out the kinks.

The lab behind the artificial intelligence art tool is giving access to up to a million people on its waiting list, just as worries grow about possible abuse.