"I don't want it to be available for training AI" is a perfectly reasonable personal preference. We can discuss whether it's selfish or not, whether others agree or not, etc.
But this is a lawsuit. What makes it illegal for OpenAI to use your content? Like, is there some license you've put up on your content that disallows it? Is there anything that's relevant to the case at hand?
As an EU citizen, some random company can't use PII related to me if I don't give consent or revoke my consent. They'll have to remove it or face a huge fine. The law doesn't care about the cost for your company to comply.
> The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) gives parents control over what information websites can collect from their kids. The COPPA Rule puts additional protections in place and streamlines other procedures that companies covered by the rule need to follow. The COPPA FAQs can help keep your company COPPA compliant. Learn about the COPPA Safe Harbor Program and about organizations the FTC has approved to implement safe harbor programs. You can also get information about ways to get verifiable parental consent– including new methods the Commission has approved – and the process for seeking approval for new methods.
There's one. There are similar laws in Europe.
The AI scraped, utilized, kept, keeps... data on children. Parents did not consent. Children /can't/ consent.
The AI use of such data is not only illegal but could end up with people being jailed over it.
So my question would be "what license entitles OpenAi to use my content"? It could be that as part of the user agreement of the website you gave some rights to the website and they sold it on to OpenAi, could be fair use, could be "does not count as 'more'",... .
Bad analogy: For money laundering we have similar rules. If you suddenly appear with a large amount of money/data, then the obligation is on you to show that it is clean, not on others to show that it is dirty. You can disagree with that (innocent until proven guilty etc.), but it is not clear cut which way around things should be.
As to the legality, that remains unknown until a court makes a ruling. I suspect that this lawsuit will go nowhere, but I'm just speculating along with everyone else.
On the other hand, you can’t prevent people from using your data if you put it out in public without condition (in the form of some acceptable licenses).
As an analogy, if you put a picture of your living room in the sidewalk, you can’t prevent me from looking at it, study it, when I walk by. I may even benefit from it by copying your style or decoration. You may however cover it, with a warning. I’d clearly violate your terms if I still look at it against your will, although I may not violate any laws.