Last Updated: July 14, 2023, 05:31 IST
Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
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The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI over false data and mishandling consumer information in its ChatGPT app. OpenAI to cooperate with the probe
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI to find out if its vastly common ChatGPT app harms shoppers by producing false data and whether or not its know-how mishandles consumer information. Microsoft-backed OpenAI was notified of the investigation in a 20-web page questionnaire by which the corporate is requested to explain incidents by which customers have been falsely disparaged, and share any firm efforts to make sure this doesn’t occur once more.
The investigation by the US regulator was first reported by The Washington Post. OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT final November shocked the world because it displayed the ability of enormous language fashions (or LLM), a type of synthetic intelligence generally known as generative AI that may churn out human-like content material in simply seconds.
Amid the marvel on the know-how’s capacities, reviews got here in that the fashions might additionally churn out offensive, false or simply unusual content material, generally referred to as “hallucinations.”
FTC chair Lina Khan addressed a congressional committee hearing on Wednesday, and while she did not mention the investigation, she told lawmakers that her agency had concerns about ChatGPT’s potentially libellous output.
“We’ve heard about reports where people’s sensitive information is showing up in response to an inquiry from somebody else,” Khan stated.
“We’ve heard about libel, defamatory statements, flatly unfaithful issues which are rising. That’s the kind of fraud and deception that we’re involved about,” she added.
The FTC’s investigation is mainly focused on how this aspect could harm users, according to the questionnaire, but also delves into OpenAI’s use of private data to build its world-leading model.
The company’s GPT-4 is the bedrock technology behind its own ChatGPT as well scores of other programs from companies that pay a fee to OpenAI to access its model for their own uses.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a tweet that he regretted news of the investigation was leaked to the press, which “does not build trust.”
He added that “after all” OpenAI will work with the FTC and that “it’s super important to us that our technology is safe and pro-consumer, and we are confident we follow the law.”
An FTC probe doesn’t essentially convey additional motion and the regulator can shut the case whether it is glad by the goal firm’s reply.
If the FTC perceives unlawful or unsafe practices, it is going to demand remedial motion and presumably launch a lawsuit.
OpenAI and the FTC didn’t reply to a request for remark.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
