maker openai face class action
ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces class action over how it used people's data
The lawsuit goes to the heart of a major unresolved question hanging over the surge in "generative" AI tools such as chatbots and image generators. The technology works by ingesting billions of words from the open internet and learning to build inferences between them. After consuming enough data, the resulting "large language models" can predict what to say in response to a prompt, giving them the ability to write poetry, have complex conversations and pass professional exams. But the humans who wrote those billions of words never signed off on having a company such as OpenAI use them for its own profit.