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

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.

Date it happened
2019-03-11
Organisation involved
OpenAI
Product, system or model
Web-scraped training datasets, OpenAI training data pipelines, OpenAI large language models, OpenAI Codex, Large language models, Image generation technology, GPT-4, GPT-3.5, DALL-E, ChatGPT, Chatbots
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