As regulatory pressure mounts for artificial intelligence, new lawsuits want to take OpenAI to court
By Marty Swant
The potential impact of AI on data privacy and intellectual property has been a hot topic for months, but new lawsuits filed against OpenAI aim to address both issues in California’s courts.
In a class action case filed last week, lawyers allege OpenAI violated state and federal copyright and privacy laws when collecting the data used to train the language models used in ChatGPT and other generative AI applications. According to the complaint, OpenAI allegedly stole personal data from people by scraping the internet and various applications including Snapchat, Spotify and Slack and even the health platform MyChart.
Rather than just focusing on data privacy, the complaint — filed by Clarkson Law Firm — also alleges OpenAI has violated copyright laws, which continues to be a legal grey area on a number of fronts. Intellectual property protections are also the focus of a separate lawsuit filed filed by a different firm last week in a case claiming OpenAI misused the works of two U.S. authors while training ChatGPT.
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