The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, in Boston, on Dec. 8, 2023. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI after conducting an initial probe into the company’s ChatGPT program, which he said revealed that the chatbot gave detailed advice to a suspected shooter who allegedly used it in a deadly campus shooting at Florida State University last year.
“Florida law states that anyone who aids, abets, or counsels someone in the commission of a crime, and that crime is committed or attempted, is a principal in the first degree,” Uthmeier told reporters at a press conference in Tampa on April 21.