Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
The families of victims killed in one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history have already sued OpenAI over its failure to warn law enforcement after discovering in advance that the shooter was using ChatGPT to plan the violence. Now, British Columbia is suing, explaining for the first time how costly and extreme the disaster response has been. OpenAI and Sam Altman owe the tiny remote mining community shattered by the tragedy much more than an apology, the Canadian province argued.
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British Columbia is suing OpenAI after a mass shooting in which the shooter used ChatGPT to plan violence. The province is demanding that OpenAI pay for rebuilding a secondary school that had to be demolished because survivors were too traumatized to return, along with covering other emergency costs from the disaster. The lawsuit also seeks to force OpenAI to release the shooter's chat logs publicly and to implement automatic systems that terminate violent conversations on ChatGPT. British Columbia argues that OpenAI knew about the violent use in advance but chose not to warn law enforcement, and that the company has failed to make ChatGPT safer despite a pattern of violent use linked to mass shootings.
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