Eight states sued OpenAI this week for collecting too much data from children. Their proposed fix is to collect far more data from everyone.
They want courts to force age verification on ChatGPT, which means every adult would have to prove who they are before asking a chatbot anything.
A court has already made OpenAI hand 20 million conversations to the New York Times.
Once those chats are tied to a real name, the next request will come from someone with a badge. These states are asking judges to impose ID checks that their own lawmakers never passed. The states are trying to get it through consumer protection law instead.
https://reclaimthenet.org/openai-lawsuits-chatgpt-age-verification
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