Los Angeles (USA) (EFE).- The American artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, was the subject of a lawsuit this Wednesday in California (USA) for violating the privacy of millions of users Internet and copyright.
The lawsuit was filed this Wednesday and published on the official website of the Clarkson law firm, which stated that they want to represent “real people whose information has been stolen and inappropriately commercially diverted to create this very powerful technology.”
In his letter, OpenAI is accused of “stealing private information” from hundreds of millions of Internet users, including minors of all ages, in order to improve and develop technology for profit.
The case mainly focuses on the rise of “generative” artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as “chatbots” (ChatGPT) and image generators that create original content from existing data pulled from the internet.
These instruments are fed by information originated by humans, such as private conversations and medical data, obtained in many cases without the consent of their creators.
The lawsuit points to the need for “immediate legal intervention” to protect human interests and values from the threat posed by AI to “exploit human beings without regard to their welfare or consent.”
In addition, it highlights that, if there is no regularization of these technologies, experts are already envisioning a catastrophic scenario that could culminate in the elimination of the human species “as a threat to their objectives.”
There were previously allegations that OpenAI improperly monetized open source code (Github) to train its artificial intelligence systems, and this month a radio host sued the lab for defamation, alleging that ChatGPT produced text unreasonably accusing it of fraud. .
The discussion around the fair regulation of AI is also popular in the entertainment sectors and is one of the key points of the strike of the Hollywood Writers Guild, who demand that the big producers protect their copyright and work rights. as writers.