🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ChatGPT creator OpenAI

OpenAI openly admits that it is unable to correct false information about people on ChatGPT. The company cannot even say where the data comes from.

Read all about it here 👇

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it

noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA

noyb.eu

@noybeu It's a language model. It's not a source of data.

It's like trying to sue the English language because it's possible to use it to say something defamatory.

ChatGPT's ONLY job is to simulate the *structure* of, e.g., a conversation. Managing the *content* of that conversation is beyond its scope.

Substitute "conversation" for letter, essay, lecture, etc.

@waggers5 @noybeu

You're talking about what ChatGPT actually is, but that is NOT how ChatGPT is being marketed and sold to other companies.

ChatGPT is being marketed as a way to replace human beings, not as a way to simulate language structures.

ChatGPT is being used by search engines, and people go to search engines to find useful information, not to explore the structure of language.

@FediThing @noybeu @wizzwizz4 Sadly a very familiar tale of technology marketers not understanding (or wilfully misunderstanding) the capabilities of the product they are selling

@waggers5 @noybeu @wizzwizz4

...but those kinds of applications are where almost all of the money funding ChatGPT comes from.

Most money for AI is, ultimately, from company owners that want to sack human staff to reduce costs, or build rival companies without human staff to outcompete those with human staff.

It is disingenuous/dishonest of ChatGPT's creators to take this money and then feign ignorance about all of this.

The fact it's being done by spreading uncorrectable lies about people makes it even worse.

@waggers5 @noybeu hence you sue the developers of said LLM. Because just like "English" someone is telling it how to behave and respond.

The developers of any given AI are responsible to what it does, just like they are responsible for say copyright violations while training it.

@WhyNotZoidberg
From a GDPR standpoint, developers have no obligations AFAICT. Obligations are on “data controllers” and “data processors”. Whoever *runs* the software that processes personal data has obligations under the GDPR (which could incidentally be the developers if the devs and software users are one in the same).

@waggers5 @noybeu