Coalition of U.S. state attorneys general opens investigation into OpenAI
The Facts
- A coalition of U.S. state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI.
- OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and their impact on users.
- The subpoena was sent by New York’s attorney general.
- The subpoena seeks information about OpenAI’s advertising, user engagement and retention, and its handling of consumer and health data.
- The inquiry also asks for information related to minors and seniors, deep learning models, and internal company policies.
- OpenAI said it is taking the attorneys general’s concerns seriously and intends to cooperate with the investigation.
- The investigation adds to OpenAI’s legal scrutiny from U.S. states, with Reuters reporting that Florida has also sued the company over alleged misrepresentations about ChatGPT’s safety.
How left and right are reading this
- Both agree
- The investigation centers on whether OpenAI can account for how its business practices and internal policies affect users, especially in areas like data handling, advertising, and protections for potentially vulnerable groups named in the subpoena.
- They split on
- Less a disagreement than a question of emphasis: the user harms and vulnerabilities that broad state scrutiny is probing, versus the legitimacy of that scrutiny being tested through OpenAI’s transparency and cooperation.
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Context
What are state attorneys general asking OpenAI to provide?
The subpoena seeks documents and information about OpenAI’s advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer and health data, activities involving minors and seniors, deep learning models, and internal policies Free Malaysia Today,engadget,Reuters.
Who is leading the document request?
Multiple reports say the subpoena was sent by New York’s attorney general on behalf of the coalition investigating OpenAI engadget,Reuters,Bloomberg Business.
What is still unclear about the investigation?
The reports shown here do not identify all of the states participating in the coalition, and they do not say what enforcement action, if any, may follow after the document review WSJ,Reuters,Hans India.
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