OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT — a natural language processing artificial intelligence (AI) tool — is facing a class-action lawsuit in California over allegedly scraping private user information from the internet. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California by Clarkson Law Firm on June 28. The suit alleges that OpenAI trained ChatGPT using data collected from millions of social media comments, blog posts, Wikipedia articles and family recipes without the consent of the respective users. Thus, OpenAI violated the copyrights and privacy of millions of internet users. The 16 named plaintiffs in the case claim OpenAI illegally accessed private information from individuals’ interactions with ChatGPT. If these allegations are proven to be accurate, the accused will be in breach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — a law with a precedent for web-scraping cases. Microsoft, a major OpenAI investor, was also named a defendant. OpenAI did not respond to Cointelegraph’s requests for comments by publication.
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