I was shown a weight loss diet plan ad after asking Chat GPT for a weekly meal plan for a 70 year old man receiving high cortisone treatment. I hadn’t seen any advertising in Chat GPT conversations before this. Under what circumstances are ads shown? Specific words/phrases in the conversation clearly trigger specific ads. Doesn't this contravene the sharing/processing of personal information with/by third parties regulation under the GDPR? The response given was that the ads are ‘contextual’, not triggered by a single word. What does this mean going forward? I was not asked whether I consented to advertising when I subscribed, although the subscription is not a paid one. Are we to assume going forward that exposure to advertising based on the content of Chat GPT conversations is inevitable unless you pay? If so, shouldn’t this in itself be advertised/declared publicly? Leaching personal information without expressing intent to do so is still not ok. (EU user, not UK)

Can anyone tell me more about the paralegal/data privacy field? I have a BS in Comp Science, I did a data privacy internship two years ago and a co-op consulting part time for 1.5 years in data privacy. I’m interested in exploring data privacy and potential lawyer…but I really want to start off as a paralegal.