Nonprofit organizations across the country are being urged to join a federal class action lawsuit against GoFundMe for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create and profit from a reported 1.4 million unauthorized online fundraising accounts last year.
Potential victims include nonprofit arts, culture, and humanities organizations in Oregon.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Eugene accuses the online company of making money by creating unauthorized fundraising web pages for legitimate organizations and charging fees for donations mistakenly made to them. Although the pages looked legitimate, in many cases they included outdated or false information, and interfered with the organization’s genuine fundraising efforts…