TL;DR
- OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it has collected vast amounts of personal data without consent.
- The lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of potentially causing "civilizational collapse" and violating multiple privacy laws.
Introduction
In a class-action lawsuit, an anonymous group accuses OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, of stealing huge amounts of personal data for training its AI models. Microsoft Corporation, a reported investor in OpenAI, is also named in the lawsuit.
Key Facts
- OpenAI is alleged to have violated privacy laws by secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet, including personal data obtained

