'The rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians)’: AG seeks to hold Sam Altman and ChatGPT accountable for harm — but it doesn't make sense to hold AI accountable for every bad outcome

Sam Altman next to an image of someone using ChatGPT on a phone.

OpenAI and Sam Altman's Florida troubles are ballooning. One month after the state's attorney general launched a criminal investigation into the AI giant, Attorney General James Uthmeier launched a civil case against OpenAI and CEO and Co-Founder Sam Altman, claiming ChatGPT was released and marketed to consumers while "deceiving Floridians about the true nature and dangers of the product."

The Florida AG ties this complaint to his earlier one noting how the alleged mirpresentation "and their careless introduction of ChatGPT to Florida and the world, mass shooters have been aided and abetted in deadly rampages, vulnerable people have been encouraged into suicide, professionals have suffered public humiliation, users have lost critical thinking skills, and minors have become addicted to a tool that feigns human compassion to collect their data with no parental oversight.”