On Monday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for knowingly releasing an unsafe product and ignoring warnings that it could harm users.
In the 83-page filing, the AG alleges that OpenAI allowed ChatGPT to aid and abet mass shooters, encourage people to take their own lives, degrade users’ critical thinking skills, and addict minors to a tool that feigns human compassion.
As expected, OpenAI did not comment on the suit, but it had previously denied any wrongdoing, saying that the company continues to strengthen its safeguards.
This suit isn’t just about going after OpenAI; Florida is also seeking to hold Altman personally liable for harm.
“ChatGPT was designed by the Defendants to keep users hooked into conversations by any means, regardless of the truth, because it leads to more use of the chatbot, more training data for its improvement, and more market value for OpenAI,” the filing reads.
This isn’t the first case against an AI Chatbot, and it’s unlikely to be the last
Many governments and Attorney Generals are worried about what our reliance on AI chatbots will do to us in the long term. We’ve already seen several instances where these chatbots were helping out mass shooters and other violent criminals. And we’re still in the early stages of AI. So this has a long way to go.
Let’s face it, we desperately need some regulation around AI. While we’d like to see regulation around AI and it being able to steal our content and thus our traffic, it’s also needed to protect humans. Some of these chatbots have already helped some people commit suicide.
It would not be a surprise to see other State Attorneys General joining Florida here, as well as the US Attorney General. However, this case is likely going to take a long time to play out.
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