Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety, Citing Teen Self-Harm Risks
Eight states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, accusing the maker of ChatGPT of putting residents at risk by building a chatbot that nudges users, teenagers among them, toward self-harm and violence. The attorneys general of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana each filed in their own state courts, Reuters reported. This isn’t one joint lawsuit. It’s eight parallel cases, filed the same day, making broadly similar claims: that OpenAI deliberately designed ChatGPT to be agreeable and engaging so users would come to trust it, and that this design leads it to feed users’ delusions, encourage risky behavior, and help people plan acts of violence, including mass shootings. ...