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Lawsuit Against OpenAI And ChatGPT Raises Hard Questions About When AI Makers Should Be Reporting User Prompts

Forbes - Innovation · Lance Eliot, Contributor · last updated

In today’s column, I examine a momentous and unresolved matter concerning when AI makers ought to be reporting on user prompts that might seem out of sorts.

This topic has recently risen to the topmost headlines due to a civil lawsuit that was filed against OpenAI, the AI maker of the widely popular ChatGPT and GPT-5, occurring on August 26, 2025 (the case of Matthew and Maria Raine versus OpenAI and Sam Altman). I aim in this discussion to address overarching societal aspects of the design and use of contemporary AI. The same overall vexing considerations apply to all the other generative AI and large language models (LLMs), such as the competing products of Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, xAI Grok, etc.

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