A California-based law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, alleging violation of the privacy or copyright of thousands of Internet users.
The data extracted from the Internet to train artificial intelligence motivated the filing of the lawsuit, this Wednesday, in a federal court in Northern California, against the American artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI.
The law firm, in a posting on the website, expresses its desire to represent “real people whose information was inappropriately stolen and misappropriated commercially to create this very powerful technology.”
According to the statement, the lab is accused of “stealing private information” from hundreds of millions of Internet users, including children of all ages, to improve and develop technology for profit.
In November, OpenAI made its AI human-computer conversation tool (chatbot), ChatGPT, a tool that allows you to generate texts, public and free and became popular, as well as others that allow you to generate photos and videos through texts.
The court case centers on the release of “generative” artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as “chatbots” (ChatGPT) and image generators that create original content from existing data pulled from the Internet.
These instruments work with information of human origin, such as private conversations and medical data, obtained in many cases without the consent of the authors.
The law firm notes that the lawsuit points to the need for “immediate legal intervention” to protect human interests and values from the threat posed by AI to “exploit human beings without regard to their welfare or consent.”
In addition, he points out that, if these technologies are not regularized, specialists are already envisioning a catastrophic scenario that could culminate in the elimination of the human species “as a threat to their objectives.”
OpenAI has previously been accused of improperly monitoring open source code (Github) to train its AI systems, and this month a radio host sued the lab for defamation, alleging that ChatGPT unreasonably produced text accusing it of fraud.
Source: TSF
