Show HN: Answering GDPR questions using GPT (askgdpr.com)

3 points by kolinko 3y ago ↗ HN

Hi All, A friend of mine has built a service that answers questions about GDPR using GPT. He asked me to post a Show HN on his behalf.

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AskGDPR is a developer-focused AI chatbot that answers questions about EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Vanilla ChatGPT (3.5 or 4) isn't great at GDPR. It hallucinates answers, often making up legal references that do not exist. AskGDPR feeds in relevant GDPR articles and the official commentary, which helps to cut hallucinations.

The format of answers is a sequence of word-to-word GDPR citations followed by a layman's translation. This format makes answers "failure resilient" - it's much easier to spot something off without any external lookups and by comparing citations against the model's explanation.

The inspiration for this project has been Italy's temporary suspension of ChatGPT in the country on GDPR violation grounds. I found the media's commentary relatively shallow, and I didn't feel like reading a 90+ pages PDF full of legal speak to understand what was really going on.

Here is a twitter link showing it in action: https://twitter.com/gkossakowski/status/1673328573522771970

I would love to hear your feedback!

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gkk 3y ago ↗

Hey HN,

Author of the project here. Feel free to ask me any questions!

skilled 3y ago ↗

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You should change this to a darker color, it's impossible to read the text (AI comments).

(Yeah, so this is an issue only for dark mode which I just checked)

I didn't test the site in the dark mode and clearly it needs fixing. Thanks for catching this and reporting!

(the site is a little hacked together when it comes to styling -- I'm pushing streamlit's markdown support to the limit, and it seems like its built-in dark mode was the first to give in)