ChatGPT owner is hit by massive class action lawsuit

• A California law firm launched the lawsuit against OpenAI on Wednesday
• Accuses ChatGPT maker of ‘secret and unregistered scraping of internet data’
• Two authors filed a separate suit accusing OpenAI of infringing their copyright  

OpenAI, the company behind wildly popular generative artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT, has been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging ‘unprecedented theft of private and copyrighted information.’

The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in federal court in California by public interest law firm Clarkson, on behalf of more than a dozen plaintiffs…