A lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data,' including medical records and information about children, to train ChatGPT - eviltoast

The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people’s permission.

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    1 year ago

    if it was unsecured it’s basically public. whomever put that data on a publicly accessible server is at fault

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      1 year ago

      That’s not necessarily true. Even if a company makes the mistake of not securing data correctly, those that make use of this data can still be at fault.

      If a company leaves a server wide open, you still can’t legally steal information from it.