Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'
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Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register

Microsoft and OpenAI were sued on Wednesday by sixteen pseudonymous individuals who claim the companies’ AI products based on ChatGPT collected and divulged their personal information without adequate notice or consent.

The complaint [PDF], filed in federal court in San Francisco, California, alleges the two businesses ignored the legal means of obtaining data for their AI models and chose to gather it without paying for it.

“Despite established protocols for the purchase and use of personal information, Defendants took a different approach: theft,” the complaint says. “They systematically scraped 300 billion words from the internet, ‘books, articles, websites and posts – including personal information obtained without consent.’ OpenAI did so in secret, and without registering as a data broker as it was required to do under applicable law.”

  • TehPers@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m a bit confused, Google sucks but this article is about MS and OpenAI. Did you comment on the wrong post?

    • Chobbes@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      YEP I DID. This was meant to be on the post about degoogling… I feel like I keep having a problem with Lemmy where I end up on the wrong post when I click? It’s super weird… Am I the only one that ends up on the weird sports post all the time when I didn’t go there?

      • rs5th@beehaw.orgM
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, having the post swap to a different one while you’re commenting is a known Lemmy bug.

        • Chobbes@beehaw.org
          2·
          1 year ago

          Okay. I will feel less shame… I could have sworn I was on the right thread… I clicked on it, check the post, checked the image… but I guess it took me a while to write the comment and they pulled the old switcharoo on me. I thought I was going insane.

        • Chobbes@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Hmmm. I don’t think it was the former. I clicked on the degoogle post and read degoogle related things… no clue how I ended up here, especially if the second bug means I’d see this post but still be commenting on the old one. Oh well, I guess! Maybe I’m losing my marbles, but using the progressive web app on iOS seems pretty buggy too.