A law firm filed a class action lawsuit alleging that OpenAI violated the privacy of everyone by scraping web data to train chatGPT.
The California-based Clarkson Law Firm this week (Opens in new window) a 157-page lawsuit, demanding that OpenAI cease offering commercial access for ChatGPT citing ongoing privacy violations.
The firm claims that “OpenAI created powerful AI using stolen and misappropriated information on a large scale and released it to the world with no regard for risks.”
ChatGPT has been trained using information from the Internet, such as Wikipedia articles, blogs and posts (Opens in a New Window) on social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit. Clarkson Law Firm claims that OpenAI used the information without obtaining consent or informing users.
In a blog post (Opens in a new window), Clarkson adds that OpenAI and its partner Microsoft are poised to reap huge profits from the technology, despite collecting people’s personal information without their consent. Clarkson says in a post (Opens in a New Window) that OpenAI, along with its partner Microsoft, are set to make huge profits despite the fact they have collected people’s private information without consent.
The law firm claims that “each new user, and each dollar earned, represents another victim who has been financially harmed by the commercial misuse of their personal data.”
OpenAI’s leadership admits, that AI can disrupt society and cause the end of humanity. We cannot pay for the negative consequences of AI as we have done with nuclear or social media. The law firm says that the cost to society would be too high.
