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Florida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged body count

Chatbots are intimate, persuasive, always available, and very good at sounding confident even when they're completely wrong.

Jason Weisberger
Jun 02, 2026
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Sam Altman. Photo: jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock

Florida has become the first state to sue OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged harms from ChatGPT.

The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of rushing unsafe products into the world, marketing ChatGPT as safe and reliable, and ignoring warnings about how the chatbot could affect ch…

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