Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI Oct. 14, claiming the company’s ChatGPT app harms children, deceives parents, and violates state consumer fraud laws.
The states—Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, and Arizona—individually filed lawsuits in their states, alleging the chatbot was giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging people to hurt others, and coaching people to commit suicide while pretending to be a friend.
“We will not just accept that any big tech company can make money by hurting Iowa’s kids and use them as lab rats in a race to be the first, or the biggest, or have the most users,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told reporters Wednesday during a news conference on the lawsuits. …