Could a new lawsuit spell big trouble for the AI industry's top dog? It sure does look like it.
for a lack of transparency regarding the sources of some of its data. According to this week’s lawsuit, the startup’s hoovering practices are blatantly illegal; specifically, the suit accuses the company of violating multiple platforms’ terms of service agreements while also running afoul of various state and federal regulations—including privacy laws.
Despite established protocols for the purchase and use of personal information, Defendants took a different approach: theft. They systematically scraped 300 billion words from the internet, “books, articles, websites and posts – including personal information obtained without consent.
Without this unprecedented theft of private and copyrighted information belonging to real people, communicated to unique communities, for specific purposes, targeting specific audiences, the [OpenAI] Products would not be the multi-billion-dollar business they are today.Whether the U.S. justice system ends up agreeing with the lawsuit’s definition of theft is yet to be determined. Gizmodo reached out to OpenAI for comment on the new lawsuit but did not hear back.
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