Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI, is a group of anonymous individuals alleged in a lawsuit seeking class-action status for profit-seeking, a “huge amount of money” to train artificial intelligence models in careless profit-seeking. Amount of personal information is stolen.
According to the sprawling 157-page lawsuit, OpenAI surreptitiously harvested 300 billion words from the internet, intercepted “books, articles, websites, and posts containing personal information obtained without consent,” violating privacy laws. It says. The company has used broad language to describe it as being in danger of a “collapse of civilization.”
Clarkson Law Firm said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco that plaintiffs are listed by profession and interest, but identified only by their initials for fear of backlash. They put the potential damages at $3 billion, based on a category of victims estimated to number in the millions.
“Another Approach: Theft”
“Despite established procedures for the purchase and use of personal information, defendants have taken a different approach. theft‘ they argue. The company’s popular chatbot program ChatGPT and other products are trained on personal information obtained without permission from hundreds of millions of Internet users, including children, the plaintiffs say.
Microsoft Corp., which is reportedly planning to invest $13 billion in OpenAI, was also named as a defendant.
An OpenAI spokesperson did not immediately respond to calls or emails seeking comment on the lawsuit. A Microsoft spokesperson did not immediately respond to the email.
ChatGPT and other generative AI applications have sparked strong interest in the potential of this technology, but also a firestorm around privacy and misinformation. Congress is debating the potential and dangers of AI as AI products cast doubt on the future of the creative industry and its ability to separate fact from fiction. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself also called for AI regulation in testimony at the Capitol last month. But the lawsuit focuses on how OpenAI got the guts of its product in the first place.
secret scraping
OpenAI, at the forefront of a burgeoning industry, has been accused in lawsuits of conducting large-scale covert web scraping operations and violating terms of service, state and federal privacy and property laws. One of the laws cited is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a federal anti-hacking statute that has previously been invoked in scraping disputes. The lawsuit also includes allegations of invasion of privacy, theft, unjust enrichment and violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
OpenAI, which massively exploits personal data to win the “AI arms race,” unlawfully accesses personal information from individuals’ interactions with its products and applications that integrate ChatGPT, the plaintiffs said. claims. According to the complaint, these integrations will allow the company to collect images and location data from Snapchat, music preferences from Spotify, financial information from Stripe, and private conversations from Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Plaintiffs argue that in pursuit of profit, OpenAI abandoned its original principle of advancing artificial intelligence “in the manner most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.” The lawsuit estimates ChatGPT’s projected 2023 revenue at $200 million.
The plaintiffs seek representation for a large number of individuals allegedly harmed and seek financial damages in the court, while asking the court to temporarily freeze commercial access to and further development of OpenAI products. I am asking for
