TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) – Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier is filing a lawsuit against OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, alleging the company prioritized speed to market over safety.
ChatGPT has been in the spotlight in Florida after it was discovered that the alleged FSU shooter spoke with the chat bot thousands of times in the years leading up to the shooting, including just moments before he opened fire.
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The chat logs show Phoenix Ikner asked how to use weapons, what time of day the student union was the busies and how many people he’d need to kill to get on TV.
Monday, Uthemeier announced a civil lawsuit against OpenAI to “seek damages on behalf of the people of Florida.”
“There are good things that can be done, sure. But, people like Sam Altman should not be designing these products to be addictive, to go after kids and to encourage them to do dangerous things,” Uthmeier said.
The attorney general still has an ongoing criminal probe into the company.
WCTV has reached out to OpenAI for a statement and are waiting to hear back.
Ikner’s trial is scheduled for October.
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