Source: Forbes

Last Wednesday, news spread that the American Artificial Intelligence Research Team, OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, was sued for violating the privacy of millions of Internet users, as well as their rights. The lawsuit was filed in the state of California and was published on the official website of the Clarkson law firm, which, through a statement said that they wanted to represent “real people whose information has been inappropriately stolen and commercially diverted to create this very powerful technology”.

In this way, the lawsuit also emphasizes the need for an “immediate legal intervention” to protect the interests of the users of these technologies, since ChatGPT has not implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data of the interested parties, since it has requested more data than necessary from the users who have registered in the application.

It has also been argued that Open IA has stolen private information from minors, again with the aim of improving and developing technology for profitable purposes. And the fact is that this tool is fed by information originated by users from all over the Internet, i.e., it takes information such as private conversations and business data, obtained in many cases without the consent of its creators.

Unfortunately, this scenario responds to the growing use of this application in recent months, in addition to the lack of a solid regularization of this type of technology. It should he noted that experts in the field had already warned about a possible scenario where the rights of users could have been violated.

It is worth mentioning that a few months ago, Italy became the first western country to prohibit the use of this application, due to the doubts generated by the collection and use of personal data of the Open AI chatbot, however, Italy has not been the only country to take similar actions against Chat GPT. For example, China, Iran, North Korea and Russia had already done so. On the other hand, the European Union, is in an arduous debate over the bill of AI, which, two years after its publication, is has not been approved.

Will the result of this lawsuit be a referent for the development of a legal framework to regulate the creation and use of Artificial Intelligence?