Florida’s attorney general on Monday sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company’s ChatGPT chatbot of endangering young users by making them addicted and encouraging harmful behaviors.
“Today we’re here to announce that we recently filed a monumental civil lawsuit against Sam Altman and ChatGPT for endangering our kids and deceiving parents into believing that this application is safe for use — it’s clearly not,” James Uthmeier said at a press conference.
“People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived, and they need to pay for it.”
“ChatGPT, we know, can be addictive. It mimics empathy and human characteristics to trick users into feeding it more information,” he added.
In the lawsuit, reviewed by AFP, Uthmeier cites a recent study from Drexel University reporting sleep loss, declining grades and reduced social interaction among teenagers who use chatbots from Character.AI — an OpenAI competitor — for conversation.
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