A proposed nationwide class action filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court alleges OpenAI collected sensitive personal and health data from child ChatGPT users without valid parental consent and used it to train its models. The suit, Doe v. OpenAI Foundation, seeks to void ChatGPT's terms for minors and give class members a share of OpenAI equity or its cash value.
Source: Bloomberg Law
OpenAI illegally profits from the personal information and data minors share with ChatGPT, a mother whose two children use the chatbot alleged in a proposed class action filed in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday.
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A mother accused OpenAI in a class action Tuesday of sidestepping parental consent to allow children to use its chatbot, addicting them to the technology while stealing their information to train its large language models. @hillelaron
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OpenAI‘s ChatGPT unlawfully took sensitive data from millions of child users who signed up for the AI service without getting parental consent, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday. The complaint in San Francisco federal court contains broad allegations that OpenAI designed
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