OpenAI Sued Over Children’s Data Used to Train ChatGPT
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OpenAI built ChatGPT into the world’s most profitable chatbot, but two Hawaii plaintiffs say it unlawfully scraped data from millions of children along the way. Now, they want a share of the company or its cash equivalent in return. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) The lawsuit also says that OpenAI “grooms” kids to share highly personal information about their health, relationships, photos of their faces and bodies, voice recordings, dreams, emotions, fears and insecurities. “Children are an open book to ChatGPT, which methodically strips out every page of information they have,” the lawsuit argues.
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