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|Founded=2015

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|Type=Private

|Website=https://openai.com/

|Description=OpenAI is an AI focused megacorporation that owns ChatGPT.

}}[[wikipedia:OpenAI|OpenAI]] is an American Artificial Intelligence focused company founded in December 2015. OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and a text-to-video model named Sora. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI. {{Ph-C-Int}}

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'''{{wplink|OpenAI}}'''<ref>[https://openai.com/ OpenAI Landing Page] ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260217225454/https://openai.com/ Archived])</ref> is an American [[Artificial intelligence]] (AI) focused company. Founded in December 2015, OpenAI is best known for their [[ChatGPT]] chatbot, also known for the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and Sora, a text-to-video model. With a reported revenue of $10B in FY2025 <ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=10 Jun 2025 |title=OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024 |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openais-annualized-revenue-hits-10-billion-up-55-billion-december-2024-2025-06-09/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250610051847/https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openais-annualized-revenue-hits-10-billion-up-55-billion-december-2024-2025-06-09/ |archive-date=2025-06-10 |access-date=2025-09-22 |website=Reuters}}</ref> and approximately 5.5B visitors per month<ref>[https://www.semrush.com/website/chatgpt.com/overview/ ChatGPT monthly traffic] ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260114194134/https://www.semrush.com/website/chatgpt.com/overview/ Archived])</ref>, OpenAI has positioned itself has a leader in the Generative AI industry.

==Consumer-impact summary==

{{Ph-C-CIS}}This is what '''OpenAI''' says as part of their data usage policy:

*Misleading advertising. ChatGPT terms of service say it should not be used to make decisions about people. However their advertising claims it is "PhD level" and makes other claims that seem to imply it is reliable. Many people use ChatGPT as if its output were meaningful, reliable, or a substitute for interaction with a person.

*Credits (money) expire automatically with no notification, and the credit balance interface makes this process confusing. You must maintain a positive account balance, and you are auto-billed a fixed amount if it goes negative. Accounts can be banned and credits confiscated for typing the wrong things in chat, with no recourse.

*A mobile phone number in a friendly country is required to better track your identity.

This is what '''OpenAI''' says as part of their data usage policy:

''We share content with a select group of trusted service providers that help us provide our services. We share the minimum amount of content we need in order to accomplish this purpose and our service providers are subject to strict confidentiality and security obligations. We do not use or share user content for marketing or advertising purposes.''

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

===~~Example incident one~~ (''~~date'~~')===

~~{{Main|link~~ to the ~~main article}}~~

===Web Crawlers ignoring robots.txt (2025)===

~~Short summary~~ of the ~~incident~~ (~~could be~~ the ~~same as~~ the ~~summary preceding~~ the ~~article)~~.

In 2025, Jonathan Bailey from PlagiarismToday posted an article going into how ChatGPTs web crawlers were ignoring the sites Robots.txt file.<ref>https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/23/chatgpt-ignores-robots-txt-rehashes-my-column/ ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260106080839/https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/23/chatgpt-ignores-robots-txt-rehashes-my-column/ Archived])</ref> PlaigarismToday had blocked OpenAI's web crawlers in August of 2023, yet the latest ChatGPT model at the time provided data from articles that were posted the day before on the website, even though OpenAI wasn't supposed to be scraping those webpages. This can be problematic for smaller websites, due to OpenAI's aggressive approach to web crawling, with their crawlers reportedly in a single week sending in more than 29 thousand requests to a wiki known as The Cutting Room Floor.

===~~Example incident two (''~~date~~'')~~===

...

===ChatGPT Atlas and prompt-injection vulnerability (2025)===

In 2025, Brave posted an article about vulnerabilities that have agentic web browsers, such as ChatGPT Atlas, that consists of adding hidden malicious prompts in files, text or another media. Those prompts, combined with weak safeguards of the AI agents, can make them to expose and leak sensitive data of the user.<ref>https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/PromptInjection ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260210124436/https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/PromptInjection Archived])</ref>

===Funding of the Parents & Kids Safe AI Act and creation of a child safety organization (2026)===

In January 2026, OpenAI partnered with Common Sense Media and funded approximately $10 million dollars to support the California [[Parents & Kids Safe AI Act]] bill. The bill proposes to add [[age verification]], improvement of parental controls, and to prohibit [[Personalized ads|targeted advertising]] to underage users. On January 8, OpenAI created an organization, named Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition.

In March 2026, the OpenAI's organization sent emails to child safety coalitions, only mentioning it was sponsored by Common Sense Media. The purpose of these e-mails was to convince the child safety coalitions to support the bill.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dellinger |first=AG |date=1 Apr 2026 |title=Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI |url=https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260401225238/https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069 |archive-date=2026-04-01 |access-date=4 Apr 2026 |website=Gizmodo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shugerman|first=Emily |date=1 Apr 2026 |title=Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition |url=https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/01/openai-ai-kids-safety-coalition/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/g4oN8|archive-date=2026-04-04 |access-date=4 Apr 2026 |website=The San Francisco Standard}}</ref>

==Products==

~~{{Ph~~-C-~~P}}~~

===DALL-E models:===

===GPT models:===

*[[ChatGPT-4o]]

===Sora models:===

===Misc.:===

*[[ChatGPT]]

*ChatGPT Atlas

==See also==

~~{{Ph-C-SA}}~~

*[[Anthropic]]

==References==

[[Category:Artificial intelligence companies]]

[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]

[[Category:Articles in need of additional work]]

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 |Founded=2015
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 |Type=Private
 |Website=https://openai.com/
 |Description=OpenAI is an AI focused megacorporation that owns ChatGPT.
-}}[[wikipedia:OpenAI|OpenAI]] is an American Artificial Intelligence focused company founded in December 2015. OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and a text-to-video model named Sora. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI. <!-- This article is a work of progress as of 8/13/25, Feel free to edit it to your heart's content, of course. This is my first article on a site like this. -->{{Ph-C-Int}}
+}}
+'''{{wplink|OpenAI}}'''<ref>[https://openai.com/ OpenAI Landing Page] ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260217225454/https://openai.com/ Archived])</ref> is an American [[Artificial intelligence]] (AI) focused company. Founded in December 2015, OpenAI is best known for their [[ChatGPT]] chatbot, also known for the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and Sora, a text-to-video model. With a reported revenue of $10B in FY2025 <ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=10 Jun 2025 |title=OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024 |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openais-annualized-revenue-hits-10-billion-up-55-billion-december-2024-2025-06-09/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250610051847/https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openais-annualized-revenue-hits-10-billion-up-55-billion-december-2024-2025-06-09/ |archive-date=2025-06-10 |access-date=2025-09-22 |website=Reuters}}</ref> and approximately 5.5B visitors per month<ref>[https://www.semrush.com/website/chatgpt.com/overview/ ChatGPT monthly traffic] ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260114194134/https://www.semrush.com/website/chatgpt.com/overview/ Archived])</ref>, OpenAI has positioned itself has a leader in the Generative AI industry.  <!-- This article is a work of progress as of 8/13/25, Feel free to edit it to your heart's content, of course. This is my first article on a site like this. -->
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
-{{Ph-C-CIS}}This is what '''OpenAI''' says as part of their data usage policy:
+{{Ph-C-CIS}}
+*Misleading advertising.  ChatGPT terms of service say it should not be used to make decisions about people.  However their advertising claims it is "PhD level" and makes other claims that seem to imply it is reliable.  Many people use ChatGPT as if its output were meaningful, reliable, or a substitute for interaction with a person.
+*Credits (money) expire automatically with no notification, and the credit balance interface makes this process confusing. You must maintain a positive account balance, and you are auto-billed a fixed amount if it goes negative. Accounts can be banned and credits confiscated for typing the wrong things in chat, with no recourse.
+*A mobile phone number in a friendly country is required to better track your identity.
+This is what '''OpenAI''' says as part of their data usage policy:
 ''We share content with a select group of trusted service providers that help us provide our services. We share the minimum amount of content we need in order to accomplish this purpose and our service providers are subject to strict confidentiality and security obligations. We do not use or share user content for marketing or advertising purposes.''<!-- Placeholder. -->
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 This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
-===Example incident one (''date'')===
-{{Main|link to the main article}}
+===Web Crawlers ignoring robots.txt (2025)===
-Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
+In 2025, Jonathan Bailey from PlagiarismToday posted an article going into how ChatGPTs web crawlers were ignoring the sites Robots.txt file.<ref>https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/23/chatgpt-ignores-robots-txt-rehashes-my-column/ ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260106080839/https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/23/chatgpt-ignores-robots-txt-rehashes-my-column/ Archived])</ref> PlaigarismToday had blocked OpenAI's web crawlers in August of 2023, yet the latest ChatGPT model at the time provided data from articles that were posted the day before on the website, even though OpenAI wasn't supposed to be scraping those webpages. This can be problematic for smaller websites, due to OpenAI's aggressive approach to web crawling, with their crawlers reportedly in a single week sending in more than 29 thousand requests to a wiki known as The Cutting Room Floor.
-===Example incident two (''date'')===
-...
+===ChatGPT Atlas and prompt-injection vulnerability (2025)===
+In 2025, Brave posted an article about vulnerabilities that have agentic web browsers, such as ChatGPT Atlas, that consists of adding hidden malicious prompts in files, text or another media. Those prompts, combined with weak safeguards of the AI agents, can make them to expose and leak sensitive data of the user.<ref>https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/PromptInjection ([http://web.archive.org/web/20260210124436/https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/PromptInjection Archived])</ref>
+===Funding of the Parents & Kids Safe AI Act and creation of a child safety organization (2026)===
+In January 2026, OpenAI partnered with Common Sense Media and funded approximately $10 million dollars to support the California [[Parents & Kids Safe AI Act]] bill. The bill proposes to add [[age verification]], improvement of parental controls, and to prohibit [[Personalized ads|targeted advertising]] to underage users. On January 8, OpenAI created an organization, named Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition.
+In March 2026, the OpenAI's organization sent emails to child safety coalitions, only mentioning it was sponsored by Common Sense Media. The purpose of these e-mails was to convince the child safety coalitions to support the bill.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dellinger |first=AG |date=1 Apr 2026 |title=Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI |url=https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260401225238/https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069 |archive-date=2026-04-01 |access-date=4 Apr 2026 |website=Gizmodo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shugerman|first=Emily |date=1 Apr 2026 |title=Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition |url=https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/01/openai-ai-kids-safety-coalition/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/g4oN8|archive-date=2026-04-04 |access-date=4 Apr 2026 |website=The San Francisco Standard}}</ref>
 ==Products==
-{{Ph-C-P}}
+===DALL-E models:===
+===GPT models:===
+*[[ChatGPT-4o]]
+===Sora models:===
+===Misc.:<!-- Placeholder. -->===
+*[[ChatGPT]]
+*ChatGPT Atlas
 ==See also==
-{{Ph-C-SA}}
+*[[Anthropic]]
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
+[[Category:Artificial intelligence companies]]
 [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
 [[Category:Articles in need of additional work]]