OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

[highplainsdem]

Source: Futurism

A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google, without obtaining proper user consent.

Filed yesterday in California, the lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s data-sharing with Google and Meta violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act, known as CIPA, as well as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. It points specifically to OpenAI’s integrations with Meta Pixel and Google Analytics, which are data-tracking and collection tools that facilitate targeted advertisements.

The data-tracking model described in the lawsuit — often referred to as “surveillance capitalism” — is the business that the modern internet is built on today. And OpenAI, like countless other tech companies, does include language in its privacy policy noting that it does collect, store, and share a range of consumer inputs and personal information.

That said, human-like chatbots like ChatGPT are an intensely personal technology, even more so than the social media platforms that came before them. It’s well-understood that millions of people turn to chatbots for emotional support and mental healthcare, with many even using ChatGPT explicitly as a therapist. For countless people, ChatGPT is a friend, confidante, or even romantic partner, to which they may divulge their innermost thoughts and feelings. And even if a consumer doesn’t have a close emotional relationship with the bot, they may still use it for assistance with business, physical health, finances, and legal advice.

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Read more: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-personal-information-meta-google

[SheltieLover]

1. Shocking

[twodogsbarking]

2. If you put it out there it is there, forever. Privacy was once sacred. Now, not so.

[OC375]

3. There's money and convenience in it, from execs to side hustles. Everyone has an excuse.

It's not a flaw, it's a feature.

[Akakoji]

4. That's precisely what it was designed for

And yes, it makes shit up. Poorly. It also collects human responses to pressures, stress and planned situations on an ongoing basis. It has been integrated into the operating systems and the actual computer chips. There are ways to turn it off if anyone is interested in doing so, but it can not be unitegrated.

[FakeNoose]

5. If I have never participated in a "chat" with OpenAI, do they still have my data anyway?

It's not clear to me how the data is obtained, especially since they would have gotten it without my permission.

[highplainsdem]

6. OpenAI might have data on you from whatever they've scraped from the internet, data to train their AI,

but the type of info the article is about is from OpenAI users communicating with their AI tools, using them, including chatting with the chatbot. Which is linked to an OpenAI user ID and the email the user registered with. That data is particularly valuable to advertisers.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. Meta (Facebook) and Google already have your data.

It has been known for over a decade that Facebook keeps "shadow profiles" of everyone, not just Facebook users.

And, Google compiles every search inquiry you've ever made along with just about all the websites you've visited (through cookies).

[Bayard]

7. The more I hear about AI,

The less I like it. Too much Big Brother, with potential for major consequences.

[Orrex]

8. That's not a bug; it's a feature.