A new complaint alleges the use of personal data to train ChatGPT. The legal attack targets OpenAI, the creator of the chatbot, but also Microsoft, one of its main investors. It was presented at the beginning of September, indicates the US agency Reuters.
According to the complaint, OpenAI violated several privacy laws when designing its phenomenon solution. ChatGPT training would have been done using data scraped from the web. The only problem is that the “scraping” carried out for this purpose would affect the personal data of hundreds of millions of Internet users.
Hold AI leaders accountable
This attack follows a first similar case filed in July by the US Consumer Protection Agency (FTC). Therefore, the organization requested a long list of documents from OpenAI. It was then a classic procedure in the event of possible judicial proceedings or a possible friendly agreement.
But this time, the appeal is led by the law firms Morgan & Morgan and Clarkson. The latter’s CEO, Ryan Clarkson, said he wanted to “hold AI leaders accountable for the massive theft of personal information and their violations of privacy, property and consumer rights,” he said in a statement. press.
The complaint they lead accuses OpenAI of having used information from both social networks and websites. Both companies are therefore concerned about their skills and experience being used by AI models. They believe that this could lead to their “professional obsolescence.”
OpenAI and Microsoft are being asked for an unspecified amount of money in damages. According to the file, it is also requested that protection measures be implemented to prevent the misuse of private data.
Source: BFM TV
