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OpenAI面临集体诉讼,被指非法搜集个人数据

OpenAI面临集体诉讼,被指非法搜集个人数据

Teresa Xie, Isaiah Poritz, 彭博社 2023-07-06
指控者称,OpenAI从互联网上秘密获取个人信息,违反了隐私法。

OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼。图片来源:DAVID PAUL MORRIS—BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

一群匿名人士在一项寻求获得集体诉讼地位的诉讼中称,ChatGPT的开发商OpenAI盲目追求利润,为此窃取了“大量”个人信息来训练其人工智能模型。

这项长达157页的诉讼书指出,OpenAI从互联网上秘密抓取3,000亿单词,涵盖“书籍、文章、网站和帖子的内容——包括未经同意而获得的个人信息,违反了隐私法”。它毫不避讳地使用偏激的言辞,指责该公司正在冒着“文明崩溃”的风险。

6月28日,克拉克森律师事务所(Clarkson Law Firm)向旧金山联邦法院提起诉讼称,原告的身份是用职业或兴趣来描述的,但由于担心遭到报复,他们仅以名字首字母署名。这些匿名人士估计受害者有数百万人,因此称损失可能达到30亿美元。

“另一种方式:盗窃”

他们指控道:“尽管已经达成购买和使用个人信息的协议,被告还是采取了另一种方式:盗窃。”原告称,OpenAI在未经许可的情况下获取了数亿名互联网用户(包括儿童)的私人信息,用于训练其深受欢迎的聊天机器人程序ChatGPT和其他产品。

微软公司(Microsoft Corp.)据称计划向OpenAI投资130亿美元,此次也被告上法庭。

OpenAI的发言人并未立即回应通过电话或电子邮件提出的关于该诉讼的置评请求。微软的发言人也没有马上回复电子邮件。

ChatGPT和其他生成式人工智能的应用使人们对这项技术的前景产生了浓烈的兴趣,但也引发了一场关于隐私泄露和散布误导信息的风暴。美国国会正在讨论人工智能的潜力和危险性,因为人工智能产品的出现让人们开始担忧创意行业的未来以及将来能否区分现实和虚幻。今年5月,OpenAI的首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼在国会山(Capitol Hill)作证时就曾经呼吁加强对人工智能的监管。不过,这项诉讼的重点在于OpenAI起初是如何获得其产品的核心要素的。

秘密抓取

作为新兴的人工智能行业的领先公司,OpenAI在诉讼中被指控秘密进行大规模的网页抓取,违反了服务协议条款以及州和联邦的隐私法和物权法。该诉讼引用的其中一项法规是《计算机欺诈与滥用法案》(Computer Fraud and Abuse Act),这是一项联邦反黑客法,此前在一些网页抓取相关的法律纠纷也曾经被援引过。该诉讼还指控OpenAI构成侵犯隐私、盗窃、不当得利等罪名,并且违反了《电子通信隐私法案》(Electronic Communications Privacy Act)。

原告称,为了赢得“人工智能军备竞赛”,OpenAI从个人与其产品的交互过程和已集成ChatGPT功能的应用中非法获取私人信息,继而大规模盗用个人数据。该诉讼指出,ChatGPT功能的嵌入使得OpenAI可以从照片分享应用程序Snapchat收集图像和位置数据,从音乐播放平台Spotify收集音乐偏好数据,从在线支付服务商Stripe收集财务信息,以及从办公协作工具Slack和Microsoft Teams收集私人谈话。

原告指控称,OpenAI一味追逐利润,而抛弃了当初提出的“以最有可能造福全人类的方式”推进人工智能开发进程的原则。该诉讼估计,ChatGPT在2023年将创下2亿美元的收入。

除了寻求代表庞大的据称受害群体和请求在庭审中确定金钱损失赔偿外,原告还向法庭申请暂时冻结获取OpenAI产品的商业渠道以及制止OpenAI产品的进一步开发。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢

一群匿名人士在一项寻求获得集体诉讼地位的诉讼中称,ChatGPT的开发商OpenAI盲目追求利润,为此窃取了“大量”个人信息来训练其人工智能模型。

这项长达157页的诉讼书指出,OpenAI从互联网上秘密抓取3,000亿单词,涵盖“书籍、文章、网站和帖子的内容——包括未经同意而获得的个人信息,违反了隐私法”。它毫不避讳地使用偏激的言辞,指责该公司正在冒着“文明崩溃”的风险。

6月28日,克拉克森律师事务所(Clarkson Law Firm)向旧金山联邦法院提起诉讼称,原告的身份是用职业或兴趣来描述的,但由于担心遭到报复,他们仅以名字首字母署名。这些匿名人士估计受害者有数百万人,因此称损失可能达到30亿美元。

“另一种方式:盗窃”

他们指控道:“尽管已经达成购买和使用个人信息的协议,被告还是采取了另一种方式:盗窃。”原告称,OpenAI在未经许可的情况下获取了数亿名互联网用户(包括儿童)的私人信息,用于训练其深受欢迎的聊天机器人程序ChatGPT和其他产品。

微软公司(Microsoft Corp.)据称计划向OpenAI投资130亿美元,此次也被告上法庭。

OpenAI的发言人并未立即回应通过电话或电子邮件提出的关于该诉讼的置评请求。微软的发言人也没有马上回复电子邮件。

ChatGPT和其他生成式人工智能的应用使人们对这项技术的前景产生了浓烈的兴趣,但也引发了一场关于隐私泄露和散布误导信息的风暴。美国国会正在讨论人工智能的潜力和危险性,因为人工智能产品的出现让人们开始担忧创意行业的未来以及将来能否区分现实和虚幻。今年5月,OpenAI的首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼在国会山(Capitol Hill)作证时就曾经呼吁加强对人工智能的监管。不过,这项诉讼的重点在于OpenAI起初是如何获得其产品的核心要素的。

秘密抓取

作为新兴的人工智能行业的领先公司,OpenAI在诉讼中被指控秘密进行大规模的网页抓取,违反了服务协议条款以及州和联邦的隐私法和物权法。该诉讼引用的其中一项法规是《计算机欺诈与滥用法案》(Computer Fraud and Abuse Act),这是一项联邦反黑客法,此前在一些网页抓取相关的法律纠纷也曾经被援引过。该诉讼还指控OpenAI构成侵犯隐私、盗窃、不当得利等罪名,并且违反了《电子通信隐私法案》(Electronic Communications Privacy Act)。

原告称,为了赢得“人工智能军备竞赛”,OpenAI从个人与其产品的交互过程和已集成ChatGPT功能的应用中非法获取私人信息,继而大规模盗用个人数据。该诉讼指出,ChatGPT功能的嵌入使得OpenAI可以从照片分享应用程序Snapchat收集图像和位置数据,从音乐播放平台Spotify收集音乐偏好数据,从在线支付服务商Stripe收集财务信息,以及从办公协作工具Slack和Microsoft Teams收集私人谈话。

原告指控称,OpenAI一味追逐利润,而抛弃了当初提出的“以最有可能造福全人类的方式”推进人工智能开发进程的原则。该诉讼估计,ChatGPT在2023年将创下2亿美元的收入。

除了寻求代表庞大的据称受害群体和请求在庭审中确定金钱损失赔偿外,原告还向法庭申请暂时冻结获取OpenAI产品的商业渠道以及制止OpenAI产品的进一步开发。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit seeking class action status.

OpenAI has violated privacy laws by secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet, tapping “books, articles, websites and posts — including personal information obtained without consent,” according to the sprawling, 157-page lawsuit. It doesn’t shy from sweeping language, accusing the company of risking “civilizational collapse.”

The plaintiffs are described by their occupations or interests but identified only by initials for fear of a backlash against them, the Clarkson Law Firm said in the suit, filed on June 28 in federal court in San Francisco. They cite $3 billion in potential damages, based on a category of harmed individuals they estimate to be in the millions.

“A Different Approach: Theft”

“Despite established protocols for the purchase and use of personal information, Defendants took a different approach: theft,” they allege. The company’s popular chatbot program ChatGPT and other products are trained on private information taken from what the plaintiffs described as hundreds of millions of internet users, including children, without their permission.

Microsoft Corp., which plans to invest a reported $13 billion in OpenAI, was also named as a defendant.

A spokesperson for OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a call or email seeking comment on the lawsuit. A spokesperson for Microsoft didn’t respond right away to an email.

ChatGPT and other generative AI applications have stirred intense interest in the technology’s promise but also sparked a firestorm over privacy and misinformation. Congress is debating the potential and dangers of AI as the products raise questions about the future of creative industries and the ability to tell fact from fiction. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman himself, in testimony on Capitol Hill in May, called for AI regulation. But the lawsuit focuses on how OpenAI got the guts of its products to begin with.

Secret Scraping

OpenAI, which is at the forefront of the burgeoning industry, is accused in the suit of conducting an enormous clandestine web-scraping operation, violating terms of service agreements and state and federal privacy and property laws. One of the laws cited is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a federal anti-hacking statute that has been invoked in scraping disputes before. The suit also includes claims of invasion of privacy, larceny, unjust enrichment and violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Misappropriating personal data on a vast scale to win an “AI arms race,” OpenAI illegally accesses private information from individuals’ interactions with its products and from applications that have integrated ChatGPT, the plaintiffs claim. Such integrations allow the company to gather image and location data from Snapchat, music preferences on Spotify, financial information from Stripe and private conversations on Slack and Microsoft Teams, according to the suit.

Chasing profits, OpenAI abandoned its original principle of advancing artificial intelligence “in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole,” the plaintiffs allege. The suit puts ChatGPT’s expected revenue for 2023 at $200 million.

While seeking to represent the massive class of allegedly harmed individuals, and requesting monetary damages to be determined at trial, the plaintiffs are also asking the court to temporarily freeze commercial access to and further development of OpenAI’s products.

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