According to Fortune magazine, OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has been collectively sued, and Microsoft, which plans to invest $13 billion in OpenAI, has also been named as a defendant. A group of anonymous individuals accuses OpenAI of stealing "a large amount" of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models, disregarding all pursuit of profit. According to a 157-page lawsuit, OpenAI has stolen 300 billion words from the internet, which come from "books, articles, websites, and posts—including unauthorized personal information," thereby violating privacy laws. The lawsuit accuses the company of potentially causing a "collapse of civilization." OpenAI is also accused of conducting large-scale secret web scraping operations, violating service agreement terms as well as state and federal privacy and property laws.
In addition, in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the San Francisco federal court, the law firm Clarkson stated that the plaintiffs' identities are only displayed as initials due to concerns of retaliation. Given that the number of victims is in the millions, potential losses amount to $3 billion. In addition to seeking monetary compensation in the trial, the plaintiffs also request the court to temporarily freeze commercial access and further development of OpenAI products.
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