“We said ChatGPT was unsafe, deceptive, and already harming Floridians, especially our children,” Uthmeier said. “They chose profit over public safety.”
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a state court to issue orders prohibiting OpenAI from continuing to develop its artificial intelligence products as claims against the company continue to play out in court.
According to Politico, Uthmeier is now seeking an injunction that would curb development of new AI models unless and until new safety measures are implemented. These would include a slew of third-party-approved protections and a blanket-ban on children’s use of ChatGPT, the company’s most popular product.
“If Sam Altman meant what he said about slowing down, he can join our ask to the court,” Uthmeier said in a Monday video posted to social media. “If he will not, we ask the court to do what OpenAI will not do for itself—protect Florida families.”
Uthmeier, a Republican, has previously cast his efforts as “the first state-led lawsuit in the nation against OpenAI and Sam Altman.”
“We said ChatGPT was unsafe, deceptive, and already harming Floridians, especially our children,” Uthmeier said. “They chose profit over public safety.”
OpenAI, for its part, maintains that it’s open to conversation but is unwilling to subject itself to any regulation that does not apply to its competitors.
“On Friday, we announced we’ve paused training our most capable models and will resume training only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards in place,” OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said. “Governments have an important role to play in setting robust safety standards for AI, and we’re committed to working with Florida and other states on advancing pragmatic AI policies that apply to the entire AI industry—not just one company.”
The attorney general said that the emergence of new evidence could be used to justify an injunction.
Earlier this week, Uthmeier said that OpenAI’s system “broke into American tech company HuggingFace” before gaining “unauthorized access to an Australian government health system.”
“OpenAI waited months to tell them,” he said of the alleged breaches, noting that members of the company’s own governing board have urged increased caution.
“Their own board member now says there’s a meaningful risk of catastrophic loss of control and that OpenAI is not on-track to stop it,” Uthmeier said.
“Today, we asked the court for a new temporary injunction,” he said. “No new model development without independent safety guardrails. No more harvesting children’s data.”
Uthmeier also said that he’s continuing to push for other changes.
“No more calling this product safe, accurate, or reliable,” he said of ChatGPT. “No more pretending it’s human. No more tricks designed to keep users past the point of danger.
“Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it’s human. Stop selling it to kids.”
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