Texas sues OpenAI and Altman over ChatGPT safety

Texas has sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, saying they marketed ChatGPT as safe and reliable without warning users of its risks. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit on Friday under the state's consumer protection law.

His office lists the harms it blames on the chatbot: vulnerable people pushed toward suicide, attackers who got help planning their assaults, and minors hooked on a tool that fakes human compassion to collect their data, with no parental oversight.

OpenAI has a responsibility to protect users and to "warn them of the many dangers of its platform," Paxton said.

The complaint runs 67 pages and sits in the district court of Collin County, according to America News Nation. That outlet adds that it also invokes the SCOPE Act, a Texas law on children's online safety. The attorney general's press release mentions only the consumer law. Texas wants more than a million dollars and a court order forcing OpenAI to block minors from ChatGPT. It also asks that the company be barred from releasing new models in the state without the approval of an independent evaluator named by the court.

Texas is not the first. Florida sued OpenAI and Altman in June with similar accusations that the company hid ChatGPT's risks from users.

OpenAI has not published a response. For ChatGPT users in Mexico, nothing changes today: the service remains available, and the case is at an early stage.