ChatGPT developer OpenAI is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly misappropriating personal data. The lawsuit asks for a suspension of commercial use of ChatGPT
The lawsuit was filed on June 28 in a federal court in California.
ChatGPT Developer OpenAI Faces New Pushback
The lawsuit stated that OpenAI stole massive amounts of data from the internet without “just compensation.” Microsoft was also named as a defendant. Neither OpenAI nor Microsoft have commented on the lawsuit.
The lawsuit makes the following claim,
“[OpenAI products] use stolen private information, including personally identifiable information, from hundreds of millions of internet users, including children of all ages, without their informed consent or knowledge.”
As such, the lawsuit asks for a suspension of commercial use of OpenAI’s products. The lawsuit comes at a time when lawmakers are examining the risks of AI.
Anonymous Copyright Owners Had Filed a Lawsuit Earlier
This isn’t the first lawsuit that OpenAI and Microsoft are facing. Along with GitHub, the two were named in a class action lawsuit that was filed in January 2023. That lawsuit claimed that the defendants were inappropriately monetizing open-source code to train their AI systems. The lawsuit was filed by a number of anonymous copyright owners.
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The lawsuit claimed that the Copilot software was trained from code within GitHub repositories. Both Microsoft and OpenAI want the court to toss out that case because it failed to argue any specific injuries from the companies’ actions.
AI Regulation High on the Priority List
As these lawsuits have been taking palace, lawmakers across the world have been dealing with how to regulate artificial intelligence. Google’s cloud boss reported that the company had productive talks with the European Union on the subject of regulation. Both Microsoft and the ChatGPT developer have also been keen on regulation.
The EU is perhaps the most successful in regulating AI. The authority passed a landmark AI regulation earlier this month, demanding that generative AI systems be reviewed before commercial release.
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