Florida's lawyer wide has opened an probe into OpenAI's ChatGPT
ByMIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida's lawyer wide connected Tuesday opened an probe into OpenAI's ChatGPT implicit whether determination was transgression behaviour involving interactions betwixt the artificial quality app and a gunman who killed 2 radical and wounded six others past twelvemonth astatine Florida State University.
Attorney General James Uthmeier said that prosecutors had done an archetypal reappraisal of chat logs betwixt ChatGPT and the gunman, Phoenix Ikner, to find if the AI app aided oregon abetted the crime.
“This transgression probe volition find whether OpenAI bears transgression work for ChatGPT’s actions successful the shooting astatine Florida State University past year," Uthmeier said astatine a quality league successful Tampa.
Florida's Office of Statewide Prosecution has subpoenaed OpenAI for records of its policies and grooming materials regarding threats to harm others, and for its policies connected reporting “possible past, present, oregon aboriginal crime,” according to the lawyer general's office.
OpenAI spokeswoman Kate Waters called the FSU shooting a calamity but said the institution had nary responsibility. The institution proactively shared accusation with instrumentality enforcement and continues to cooperate with investigators, she said Tuesday.
“In this case, ChatGPT provided factual responses to questions with accusation that could beryllium recovered broadly crossed nationalist sources connected the internet, and it did not promote oregon beforehand amerciable oregon harmful activity,” Waters said successful an email.
Ikner faces 2 counts of first-degree execution and respective counts of attempted first-degree execution successful the shooting that terrorized the field successful Florida’s superior city.
Ikner is the stepson of a section sheriff’s deputy, and investigators accidental helium utilized his stepmother’s erstwhile work limb to transportation retired the shooting. Prosecutors successful the lawsuit mean to question the decease penalty.
Uthmeier, a Republican, was named to the presumption by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, aft the GOP politician appointed then-Attorney General Ashley Moody to the U.S. Senate spot vacated by Marco Rubio erstwhile helium became the caput of authorities successful President Donald Trump's 2nd administration.
Uthmeier is moving successful November to beryllium elected to the presumption connected his own.
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Charles Sheehan successful New York contributed to this report.
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