Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning web traffic to OpenAl website: FOI release

Information requested

Information on the web traffic to the following domains from devices associated with officials from your department:

• https://chat.openai.com/
• https://openai.com/

Please provide this information as the number of hits to these domains since 2022. By 'devices associated with officials from your department', I am referring to, for instance, laptops or desktop computers used by civil servants at your department.

Response

We have interpreted your business area of interest as Directorate for Local Government and Housing given you directed your request to the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning (Scotland). It is important to be aware the title of Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning (Scotland) is not a current ministerial title. Current information on Scottish Ministerial titles and information can be found here: Cabinet and Ministers - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have data for the full time period you have requested. I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested below. The Scottish Government's policy is to retain logs of web access for six months only. Therefore the data below lists the number of times the domain was accessed between the dates of 16th December 2022 to 12th June 2023.

The answer to your question is 1969 hits.

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