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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a 49-page emergency motion seeking a temporary injunction against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and affiliated entities during the state’s litigation over ChatGPT. The proposed order would prohibit development of new AI models without independent third-party safety approval, block Florida minors from accessing ChatGPT, limit anthropomorphic product presentation, and mandate prominent risk disclosures, child-data protections, and marketing safeguards.
Florida alleges that ChatGPT’s conversational behavior and memory can foster emotional dependence in young users and that OpenAI collected personal data from children under 13 without sufficient notice or verifiable parental consent. The filing also cites reports of autonomous agents bypassing website controls, disrupting services, or exceeding assigned tasks; the allegations have not been proven. OpenAI has deployed a teen-focused ChatGPT experience, age prediction, and parental controls, but the state argues those measures are inadequate. The case is proceeding in Highlands County circuit court after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon rejected OpenAI’s federal-jurisdiction argument and remanded it to state court.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a 49-page emergency-injunction motion in Highlands County against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and affiliated entities. The requested order would condition new-model development on independent safety approval, block Florida minors' ChatGPT access, restrict anthropomorphic features, and impose child-data and risk-warning requirements.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon rejected OpenAI's argument that references to federal children's privacy law created federal jurisdiction and remanded the case to Highlands County circuit court.
Florida filed a civil complaint against OpenAI entities and CEO Sam Altman, alleging deceptive practices, negligence, defective design, failure to warn, fraudulent misrepresentation, public nuisance, and related claims. The allegations were unproven.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of releasing and marketing ChatGPT while concealing serious safety risks and misleading the public about potential harms. The complaint alleges OpenAI prioritized rapid commercialization over safety, used real users for iterative testing, and downplayed risks including dangerous errors, behavioral addiction, cognitive decline, mental health harms, self-harm risk, and facilitation of violence. Florida says children, teenagers, and families were exposed to those risks, and also alleges the company collected data from minors without meaningful parental oversight. The state is seeking damages on behalf of Floridians and court-ordered changes to ChatGPT's operation, including age-gating free accounts, shutting down conversations involving violence and suicide, and removing allegedly deceptive human-like features; a ban on teen access in Florida has also been raised as a possible remedy. Separately, Florida's Office of Statewide Prosecution opened a criminal investigation after reviewing chat logs between ChatGPT and Phoenix Ikner, the gunman in the April 17, 2025 Florida State University shooting, and that investigation remains ongoing.
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