How the use of data for AI training is regulated in Georgia
Training artificial intelligence systems requires vast volumes of records, texts, images and other data that are often collected about other people. This raises a fundamental legal question: may such data be used to teach a model. In Georgian law this question is answered by general norms: the Georgian Law on Personal Data Protection contains no article specifically devoted to artificial intelligence. This must be said plainly: using training data is not in conflict with the law — it is simply subject to the same general regime that governs any other processing: the processing principles, the grounds, the rules on special-category data and the design requirements.
This means that when collecting training data and feeding them to a model, an organisation must answer the same questions that accompany any other processing: what the purpose of processing is, on which ground it takes place, how compatible that purpose is with the original purpose for which the data were collected, and by which measures the risk to the rights of subjects is reduced. The Georgian law follows the European approach, so international practice remains a comparative framework, while the decisive argument is always the Georgian norm.