An event akin to doomsday could await OpenAI and Microsoft if the plaintiffs prevail: they seek relief including an injunction that would force the defendants to let people remove their data from AI models.Microsoft: Copyright law didn't stop the VCR and shouldn't stop the LLM
The privacy complaint, overseen by Morgan and Morgan Complex Litigation Group and Clarkson Law Firm, accuses the defendant companies of failing to filter personal information out of their training models and"putting millions at risk of having that information disclosed on prompt or otherwise to strangers around the world." It cites, among other sources, a
Microsoft, in its motion to dismiss, argues"Plaintiffs do not plead any facts plausibly showing they have been affected by any of the supposed 'scraping,' 'intercepting,' and 'eavesdropping' they allege. Nowhere do they say what of their private information Microsoft ever improperly collected or used; nor do they identify any harm they individually suffered from anything that Microsoft allegedly did.
"That, for a decade plus, every consumer's use of the internet thus operated as a gratuitous donation to OpenAI: of our insights, talents, artwork, personally identifiable information, copyrighted works, photographs of our families and children, and all other expressions of our personhood – for products that stand to concentrate the country's wealth in even fewer corporate behemoths, displace jobs at scale, and risk the future of mission-critical industries like art, music, and...