Microsoft accuses group of developing tool to abuse its AI service in new lawsuit

Microsoft has taken legal action against a group the company claims intentionally developed and used tools to bypass the safety guardrails of its cloud AI products. According to a complaint filed by the company in December in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a group of unnamed 10 defendants allegedly used stolen customer credentials and custom-designed software to break into the Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft's fully managed service powered by ChatGPT maker OpenAI's