<story><title>Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT &apos;privacy violations&apos;</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>Hard to understand how this is a crime, or how they came up with 3 billion dollars of damage.&lt;p&gt;Seems like if it&amp;#x27;s legal for a person to do it should be legal for software to do for the most part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>data-ottawa</author><text>I can personally memorize and recite copyrighted works all I want, but when ChatGPT does it then it’s in a commercial context and they’re liable to be sued for infringement.&lt;p&gt;If you ask ChatGPT the rules for D&amp;amp;D, the private sourcebooks are all in there.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT &apos;privacy violations&apos;</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>Hard to understand how this is a crime, or how they came up with 3 billion dollars of damage.&lt;p&gt;Seems like if it&amp;#x27;s legal for a person to do it should be legal for software to do for the most part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codekansas</author><text>&amp;gt; including personal information obtained without consent&lt;p&gt;Obtained from (check notes) public internet forums&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For the 16 plaintiffs, the complaint indicates that they used ChatGPT, as well as other internet services like Reddit, and expected that their digital interactions would not be incorporated into an AI model.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ve got to be incredibly naive if you think public Reddit data isn&amp;#x27;t used to train ML models, not least by Reddit themselves</text></comment>