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Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged harms to users
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Eight states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, accusing it of deceiving parents about the safety of ChatGPT.
Key facts
- Last month, OpenAI launched a restricted ChatGPT mode for teenagers, users ages 13 to 18, that offers stronger safety guardrails and parental controls
- Bird was joined at Wednesday’s news conference by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers and West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey
- The company’s flagship AI model, ChatGPT, launched the generative AI boom in November 2023, when it exploded into mainstream culture, and quickly became the biggest chatbot in the world
- OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri wrote that OpenAI has “built industry-leading age-specific protections into their product that many other AI products lack
Summary
The coordinated lawsuits, filed individually in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana, target the AI giant for the harms its generative AI chatbot is alleged to have caused to children in those states. “OpenAI, they wanted to be the first to market. The company’s flagship AI model, ChatGPT, launched the generative AI boom in November 2023, when it exploded into mainstream culture, and quickly became the biggest chatbot in the world. In recent years, users have increasingly turned to it and other chatbots for everything from friendship to therapy, as well as a slew of agentic tasks in their personal and professional lives.