OpenAI’s ChatGPT allegedly stole people’s data, faces class action lawsuit
The maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that the company’s AI training procedures infringed the privacy and copyright of virtually everyone who has ever uploaded information online. To train its cutting-edge AI language models, OpenAI gathered a sizable amount of data from diverse online sources. These datasets include a variety of content, including explicit content from specialised genres as well as Wikipedia articles, best-selling books, social media posts, and popular publications. More significantly, OpenAI collected all of this data without first getting consent from the content producers.
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In the class action case, which has been filed in California, it is claimed that OpenAI’s disregard for legal protocol, including requesting permission from content providers, amounts to flagrant data theft. As per reports, a statement in lawsuits says, “Instead of following established procedures for the acquisition and usage of personal information, the Defendants resorted to theft. They systematically scraped 300 billion words from the internet, including ‘books, articles, websites, and posts,’ which also included personal information obtained without consent.”
It is possible that if you have been an active online user and have produced any content online, the chatbot may have been trained on that content. So, the output that OpenAI’s ChatGPT gives, which is being utilised for commercial purposes, may have bits of the data you provided that were gathered through silent scraping.
The Washington Post asserted that it was informed by Ryan Clarkson, managing partner at the legal
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