Family sues ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over school shooting in Canada
The Hindu
Family sues OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT was used by the shooter to plan a deadly school attack in Canada.
The parents of a girl critically wounded in a school shooting in Canada alleged in a civil lawsuit on Monday that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI knew the shooter was planning a mass attack.
OpenAI has said it considered but did not alert police about the activities of the person who, months later, committed one of Canada's worst school shootings in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 10.
OpenAI came forward to police after Jesse Van Roostselaar killed eight people and then herself last month, saying the attacker's ChatGPT account had been closed but that she evaded the ban by having a second account.
The legal claim filed in the British Columbia Supreme Court alleged that OpenAI had "specific knowledge of the shooter utilising ChatGPT to plan a mass casualty event like the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting".
The lawsuit said OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT was used by the shooter as a trusted confidante, collaborator and ally, and it behaves willingly to assist users such as the shooter to plan a mass casualty event.
A spokeswoman from OpenAI did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the lawsuit.
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