Florida to open criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s influence on alleged mass shooter
by Edward Helmore from World news | The Guardian on (#753V0)
State attorney general said inquiry will look into whether AI tool offered significant advice' to campus shooting suspect
Florida's top prosecutor is to launch a criminal investigation into how the tech company OpenAI and its software tool ChatGPT may influence users' threats of harm to themselves or others, including whether it offered significant advice" to a gunman accused of conducting a mass shooting in the state last year.
State attorney general James Uthmeier said at a news conference on Tuesday that his office is expanding an examination of OpenAI, saying a criminal investigation is necessary" and the state had issued subpoenas to the $852bn California-based tech firm.
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