A class action lawsuit was filed against ChatGPT creator OpenAI in a San Francisco federal court on Wednesday alleging that the company’s technology violates the copyrights and privacy of millions of users (via The Washington Post and Bloomberg Law). The complaint states that ChatGPT’s machine-learning tech trained on texts “copied by OpenAI without consent, without credit, and without compensation.”
Ryan Clarkson, the managing partner of the Clarkson law firm behind this lawsuit says his firm wants to represent “real people whose information was stolen and commercially misappropriated to create this very powerful technology.” Clarkson also said, “All of that information is being taken at scale when it was never intended to be utilized by a large language model.” Clarkson wants courts to place safeguards on how AI algorithms are trained — and to see that people get compensated if their works are used.
