A group of anonymous individuals claimed this chatgpt creator OpenAI Inc. has been stealing massive amounts of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in its quest for profit. He has filed a lawsuit against the company seeking class action status.
In the 157-page lawsuit, the individuals claimed that OpenAI violated privacy laws by secretly scraping 300 billion words from the Internet, exploiting content including personal information obtained without consent. Bloomberg Report.
The Clarkson law firm filed the lawsuit against ChatGPT’s creator in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday. They cite $3 billion in potential damages.
He alleged, “Despite established protocols for procuring and using personal information, defendants took a different approach: theft.” Bloomberg News.
He added that ChatGPT, along with the company’s other products, is trained on personal information collected from millions of Internet users without their permission.
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Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for AI regulation itself. The company is accused of running a vast covert web-scraping operation, violating terms of service agreements and state and federal privacy and property laws.
“OpenAI illegally accessed personal information from individuals’ interactions with its products and applications that integrated ChatGPT,” the lawsuit reads.
It added, “Such integration allows the company to collect image and location data from Snapchat, music preferences on Spotify, financial information from Stripe, and private conversations on Slack and Microsoft Teams.”
The plaintiffs also claimed that OpenAI abandoned its core principle of advancing artificial intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.
ChatGPT’s expected revenue for 2023 is $200 million, according to suit Bloomberg Report.
The group is also asking the court to temporarily block commercial access to and further development of OpenAI’s products.
(with inputs from Bloomberg)
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Updated: July 02, 2023, 09:39 AM IST