OpenAI Hit With Class Action Over ‘Unprecedented’ Web Scraping

The generative artificial intelligence company OpenAI LP was hit with a wide-ranging consumer class action lawsuit alleging that company’s use of web scraping to train its artificial intelligence models misappropriates personal data on “an unprecedented scale.”

The nearly 160-page complaint filed Wednesday in a San Francisco federal court said OpenAI’s popular generative AI programs ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained on “stolen private information” taken from what it described as hundreds of millions of internet users, including children, without proper permission.

OpenAI illegally accesses private information from individuals’ interactions with its products and from applications that have integrated ...