Comment stolen borrowed from reddit:

TL;DR: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, for potential violations of consumer protection laws. The investigation will focus on whether OpenAI has engaged in unfair or deceptive privacy or data security practices, or if it has engaged in unfair or deceptive practices relating to risks of harm to consumers. The FTC has asked OpenAI to provide information on how it obtains and uses consumer information to train its large language models, how it assesses risk, and how it deals with misleading or disparaging statements about people. The FTC is also seeking information about a bug disclosed by OpenAI in March 2020 that may have exposed some users’ chat history and payment-related information. OpenAI has not yet responded to the investigation.