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Lawsuits and legal disputes over how AI companies collect, use, and disclose user or creator data, including training practices and consent claims.
Attorneys general in eight states sued OpenAI on October 14, alleging it misled parents about ChatGPT's safety. A proposed class action filed a day earlier alleges the company collected children's data without valid parental consent.
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Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued OpenAI, alleging it called ChatGPT safe while knowing the product had significant risks. Eight other states filed similar suits the same day, Griffin's office said, so OpenAI faces nine at once.
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OpenAI is the defendant in a proposed class action from a Hawaii mother whose 12- and 16-year-old opened ChatGPT accounts without parental consent. The complaint says sign-up never verifies that consent and that the chat data went into model training.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a judge to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent third-party approval. Trump has eased AI rules by executive order, but Florida is still taking OpenAI and Sam Altman to court.
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The complaint filed Wednesday in Northern California rests on hash values from an abuse series that has circulated since the early 2000s, which puts the contested question on what xAI ingested rather than on what its prompt filter refuses.
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Two ChatGPT users are suing OpenAI to make human review of chats opt-in, a change that would reach more than 900 million weekly users. Until a court rules, companies should assume staff chats on consumer ChatGPT, with the default setting on, can reach a staffing-firm contractor.
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Meta's Muse started hitting a Conditions of Use popup on Amazon.com on Sunday evening, and the next day Amazon filed a 41-page amended complaint against Perplexity. Anyone shipping a buying agent now needs the store's permission first.
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American labs have spent months accusing Chinese developers of illicit distillation. A Chinese robotics startup has now made the same charge against OpenAI. For buyers, the question is whose model answered the call.
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Testimony in Musk's suit puts a co-founder's holding at nearly $30 billion. The structure that once bounded investor returns is now a purpose clause, overseen by a nonprofit of unstated powers.
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