probing<\/a> a shooter\u2019s use of ChatGPT to plan and carry out an attack last spring at Florida State University that killed two people. <\/p>\n\u201cIf that bot were a person they\u2019d be charged with a principal in first degree murder,\u201d Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said during a Tuesday press conference.<\/p>\n
OpenAI issued a statement saying the company shared information from the shooter\u2019s ChatGPT account with prosecutors and continues to \u201ccooperate with authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year\u2019s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,\u201d OpenAI spokeswoman Kate Waters said.<\/p>\n
The shooter sought advice from ChatGPT on what weapon to use, what ammo to fire, and where he could find the most people to kill on campus, Uthmeier said. <\/p>\n
The state is demanding police and chatbot training materials that touch on threats to users, threats to others, and company policies over cooperation with law enforcement, as well as information from the shooter. Subpoenas will be sent today, but the Florida Attorney General\u2019s office said the documents weren\u2019t available yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cTechnology is supposed to help mankind, it\u2019s supposed to support mankind. Not end it,\u201d Uthmeier said, adding that the state will look to potentially charge individuals at OpenAI depending on what they find. <\/p>\n
Waters called ChatGPT a \u201cgeneral-purpose tool\u201d used by millions of people every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this case, ChatGPT provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet, and it did not encourage or promote illegal or harmful activity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1644,1645,1642,157,8767],"class_list":{"0":"post-11847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-firearm-crime","9":"tag-homicide","10":"tag-large-language-models","11":"tag-openai","12":"tag-subpoenas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}