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ChatGPT OpenAI lawsuit overview:
- Who: OpenAI, the creator of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, is being sued by a law firm.
- Why: The firm says the company violated copyright and privacy law by scraping the internet to teach the bot.
- Where: The ChatGPT OpenAI lawsuit was filed in a California federal court.
The creator of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is being sued by a law firm that alleges the company violated copyright and privacy laws by scraping the internet to teach the bot.
California law firm Clarkson filed the class action lawsuit against OpenAI on June 28 in a California federal court, The Washington Post reports.
It alleges OpenAI breached the copyrights and privacy of millions of people when it used data scraped from the internet as training material for ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence (AI).
Clarkson alleges people’s social media comments, blog posts, Wikipedia articles and family recipes were unwittingly used to train the AI chatbot.
The lawsuit poses a challenge to one of the most widely-discussed new technologies made available to the public on a large scale.
Firm says OpenAI uses people’s online content to make profit
In the past 12 months, there has been a surge in “generative” AI tools such as chatbots and image generators. The tools are taught by information available on the open internet, which the AI uses to build inferences between billions of words and sources of information.
Clarkson says the people who wrote those words — regular internet users — never gave permission for companies like OpenAI to use their content to program their AI tools. The firm further alleges that OpenAI is using that content for its own profit.
The firm wants to represent “real people whose information was stolen and commercially misappropriated to create this very powerful technology,” Ryan Clarkson, the firm’s managing partner, told The Washington Post.
“All of that information is being taken at scale when it was never intended to be utilized by a large language model,” Clarkson said, adding that he hopes to get a court to institute some guardrails on how AI algorithms are trained and how people are compensated when their data is used.
Earlier this year, a tech policy group asked federal regulators to block the OpenAI artificial intelligence product GPT-4, saying the product does not meet federal standards.
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy lodged a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on March 30, saying the newly released OpenAI software is “biased, deceptive, and a risk to privacy and public safety.”
In April, an OpenAI data breach led to an outage and allowed ChatGPT users to view other users personal information and chat queries.
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