OpenAI in trouble: ChatGPT creator sued for theft of ‘private data’

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A group of anonymous individuals claimed that ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc is stealing a vast amount of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits..

In the 157-page lawsuit, the individuals claimed that OpenAI has violated privacy laws by secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet, tapping content including personal information obtained without consent, according to Bloomberg reports..

They said that ChatGPT along with the company's other products is trained on private information taken from hundreds of millions of internet users without their permission..

The lawsuit reads, OpenAI illegally accesses private information from individuals interactions with its products and from applications that have integrated ChatGPT.".

Such integrations allow the company to gather image and location data from Snapchat, music preferences on Spotify, financial information from Stripe and private conversations on Slack and Microsoft Teams," it added..

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