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JE Technology Desk: OpenAI, the company behind viral chatbot ChatGPT, has been sued in the US for allegedly using public data to train its AI products without notice of the owners. The lawsuit submitted in the Northern District of California claims the research company allegedly used "stolen data to train and develop" models such as ChatGPT 3.5, GPT 4, DALL-E and more.

A suit that spanned 157 pages claimed OpenAI used this information that includes the personal details of millions of users on the internet that also encompass children of all ages without consent for their benefit.

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The company "continue to unlawfully collect and feed additional personal data from millions of unsuspecting consumers worldwide, far in excess of any reasonably authorised use, in order to continue developing and training the products".

The lawsuit stated Sam Altman's statement: "AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies."

AI and the emerging technologies from OpenAI have the potential to impact the world positively and aid in research and other life-saving endeavours. With this in mind, the research company was founded as a nonprofit organisation with a mission to benefit humanity.

"But in 2019, OpenAI abruptly restructured itself, developing a for-profit business that would pursue commercial opportunities of staggering scale," the lawsuit claimed. As a result, the company abandoned its principles and choose to chase profits at the cost of user privacy and ethics.

But it secretly harvested the personal data of internet users, that includes private chats, medical records and data of children without notice to the users, the class-action lawsuit added.

In another instance, Mark Walters, a radio host, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI when ChatGPT accused Walters of misappropriating funds from an NPO in an imaginative story.

As for some background, ChatGPT was introduced last year as a language model that delivers conversational-style answers to user queries. Soon after launch, it sparked an AI race that got top tech companies such as Google and Microsoft competing to integrate AI into their software offerings.