A lawsuit filed this week in federal court in San Francisco is accusing OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, of stealing "vast amounts" of personal information, intellectual property and copyrighted content to train their chatbots.
Specifically, the lawsuit, filed by a group of anonymous individuals who are asking the court to grant them class action status—based on the language in the lawsuit, it sounds like they want to include the entire human race in the class—says OpenAI violated privacy laws by "secretly" scraping 300 billion words from the Internet, including "books, articles, websites and posts."
The lawsuit, which also names Microsoft as a defendant, accuses Open AI of risking "civilizational collapse." It seeks $3B in damages.
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