Startup Scatter Lab, which has been investigated by the government due to various controversies surrounding the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot’Iruda’, is scheduled to reveal its position on the 11th.
An official from Scatter Lab met with reporters at the Scatter Lab office in Seongdong-gu, Seoul this afternoon, saying, “We plan to issue an admission statement today.”
The official also said, “Because there are a lot of questions and requests from users, we plan to include as much detail as possible.”
It is reported that ScatterLab is also considering a plan to temporarily suspend the Eruda service.
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In the Scatterlab office, which uses a shared office, only a few employees are currently in the office, blocking outside access.
Kim Jong-yoon, CEO of ScatterLab, is known to be in the office, but declined to talk with the reporters.
Eruda is an AI chatbot launched by startup Scatter Lab on the 23rd of last month based on Facebook messenger.
The number of users exceeded 400,000 due to their natural conversational ability, and it attracted great attention, but after suffering from the treatment of sexual tools from malicious users, it was controversial as they made statements of discrimination against homosexuality, people with disabilities, and women.
Users of Scatter Lab’s other app’Science of Love’ are predicting a class action lawsuit, saying that Scatter Lab used personal information for development without sufficient explanation and did not properly protect personal information.
The Personal Information Protection Committee announced on the day that it has begun to investigate the facts related to Scatter Lab with the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA).
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