ChatGPT developer OpenAI was sued collectively: stealing information by all means

On June 29, Jin Shi issued a document stating that OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, was sued collectively. A group of anonymous sources have accused OpenAI of stealing "vast amounts" of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models, in a desperate pursuit of profit. According to a 157-page lawsuit, OpenAI violated privacy laws by stealing 300 billion words from the Internet from "books, articles, websites and posts -- including personal information obtained without consent." The lawsuit bluntly accuses the company of causing a "collapse of civilization." OpenAI is alleged in the lawsuit to have conducted a massive covert web scraping operation that violated the terms of its service agreement and state and federal privacy and property laws.

Separately, Clarksons said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco that the plaintiffs were identified only by their initials for fear of retaliation; potential damages amount to $3 billion given the number of victims in the millions . “Despite having an agreement to purchase and use personal information, the defendants took a different approach: stealing,” the plaintiffs claim. The company’s popular chatbot program, ChatGPT, and other products were trained without the plaintiff’s permission to use it. Private information was obtained from hundreds of millions of Internet users, including children.

Microsoft Corp., which reportedly plans to invest $13 billion in OpenAI, is also named as a defendant. Spokespeople for OpenAI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.