ChatGPT's creator OpenAI is being sued for allegedly secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet - Upgoat

ChatGPT's creator OpenAI is being sued for allegedly secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet
submitted by mxcviel to ChatGPT 10 monthsJul 3, 2023 21:54:03 ago (+6/-0) (techstartups.com)
https://techstartups.com/2023/07/03/chatgpt-lawsuit-openai-sued-for-3-billion-for-scraping-and-stealing-private-data-from-millions-of-people-without-their-consent/

ChatGPT's creator OpenAI is being sued for allegedly secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet, including books, articles, websites, posts, and personal information that was obtained without consent, Bloomberg reports.

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Crackinjokes 0 points 10 months ago

There were some lawsuits that made scraping definitely legal over 10 years ago so the precedent is that if it's out there in a public space that it's legal to scrape it. Now if they were getting other information that was not out in the public space then that may be different.

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