In a motion filed on Monday, the Florida attorney general James Uthmeier asked for that a state court prevent OpenAI from training new models without independent oversight, and that it cut minors off from ChatGPT.
The suspect in that case allegedly used ChatGPT in the lead up to the shooting.
Uthmeier's office points to OpenAI's recent security disclosures, including the one it made after the hacking of Hugging Face, as well as Sam Altman's own calls for the AI industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, as justification for the injunction.
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In a motion filed on Monday, the Florida attorney general James Uthmeier asked for that a state court prevent OpenAI from training new models without independent oversight, and that it cut minors off from ChatGPT. Uthmeier's office first sued OpenAI in June, after launching a criminal investigation into the company this past April in the aftermath of the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University. The suspect in that case allegedly used ChatGPT in the lead up to the shooting.
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Uthmeier's office points to OpenAI's recent security disclosures, including the one it made after the hacking of Hugging Face, as well as Sam Altman's own calls for the AI industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, as justification for the injunction.
In February, Canadian regulators called for OpenAI to change how it approaches threats of harm following a Wall Street Journal report that claimed the company flagged the account of alleged Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar in 2025 but failed to bring their threats to law enforcement.
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