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Technology

Jun. 30, 2023

OpenAI accused of illegal information gathering

“Using stolen and misappropriated personal information at scale, defendants have created powerful and wildly profitable AI and released it into the world without regard for the risks,” Ryan J. Clarkson of Clarkson Law Firm PC in Malibu wrote in the complaint.

OpenAI accused of illegal information gathering
Clarkson

Artificial intelligence laboratory OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and Microsoft Corp. were accused in a federal proposed class action of illegally harvesting large amounts of private and identifiable information from people on the internet to create their products.

Microsoft struck a multiyear, multibillion commercial partnership with OpenAI this year to develop artificial intelligence tools.

Microsoft has...

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