Incident 561: OpenAI Alleged by Lawsuit Violated Users' Privacy Rights by Training AI on Private Info without Informed Consent

Description: OpenAI's products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E were alleged in a lawsuit using stolen private information from internet users without their informed consent or knowledge.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed internet users , Children and social media users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID

561

Report Count

Incident Date

2019-03-11

Editors

Khoa Lam

Applied Taxonomies

MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified

Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information

Risk Domain

Privacy & Security

Entity

Human

Timing

Pre-deployment

Intent

Intentional

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Class Action Complaint

clarksonlawfirm.com

ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data

washingtonpost.com

OpenAI is being sued for training ChatGPT with 'stolen' personal data

sea.mashable.com

clarksonlawfirm.com · 2023

Introduction

On October 19, 2016, University of Cambridge Professor of Theoretical Physics Stephen Hawking predicted, “Success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. But it could also be the last, unle…

washingtonpost.com · 2023

SAN FRANCISCO – A California-based law firm is launching a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the artificial-intelligence company that created popular chatbot ChatGPT massively violated the copyrights and privacy of countless peo…

sea.mashable.com · 2023

A California law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI for "stealing" personal data to train ChatGPT.

Clarkson Law Firm, in a complaint filed in the Northern District of California court on Wednesday, alleges ChatGPT and Dall…

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