T. Ware III, PhD

🔥 BREAKING: New privacy lawsuit against OpenAI filed by a resident of Florida, FULL OF strong statements and allegations. Important quotes below: "Together with Defendants’ scraping of our digital footprints—comments, conversations we had online yesterday, as well as 15 years ago—Defendants now have enough information to create our digital clones, including the ability to replicate our voice and likeness and predict and manipulate our next move using the technology on which the Products were built. They can also misappropriate our skill sets and encourage our own professional obsolescence. This would obliterate privacy as we know it and highlights the importance of the privacy, property, and other legal rights this lawsuit seeks to vindicate" (page 7) - "OpenAI’s sudden shift to a profit focus and alignment with Microsoft, a corporate giant with a vested interest in curating and dominating a commercial market for AI, marked the beginning of the end of OpenAI’s commitment to humanity. The company began to pursue profits at the expense of privacy, security, and ethics, beginning with its data collection" (page 14) - The integration of ChatGPT technology into Microsoft’s primary products significantly magnifies existing data privacy concerns. This move effectively enables the collection of consumer information across a wide array of systems and platforms, encompassing a comprehensive range of user interactions. The resultant collation of expansive consumer data contributes to the construction of extensive user profiles. (page 26) - Another reason users retain privacy interests in their personal data on the internet, even when it is technically ‘public,’ is the reasonable expectation of “obscurity” i.e., “the notion that when our activities or information is unlikely to be found, seen, or remembered, it is, to some degree safe.” Privacy experts note users’ reasonable expectation that most of the Internet will simply ignore their individual posts. Moreover, “[t]he passage of time also makes information obscure: no one remembers your MySpace pictures from fifteen years ago" (page 53) - It's great to see so many topics of the Bootcamp being discussed in practice here. I especially recommend reading from page 73, where you can find the list of alleged violations. Read the full class action lawsuit below.