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OpenAI sued by 8 states over ChatGPT safety concerns
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Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Wednesday alleging that the artificial intelligence company's ChatGPT chatbot is an unsafe product that's harmed children and deceived parents.
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- Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have individually sued OpenAI in their own state courts, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a release
Summary
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have individually sued OpenAI in their own state courts, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a release. "OpenAI is hurting kids and they are lying to Iowans," Bird said in a statement. OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the company has built age-specific protections into its product that "many other AI products lack. "While no system can be perfect, they'll continue to work with experts to inform their work and build additional safeguards, such as the parental controls, break reminders and age-appropriate model protections that exist today," Pusateri said.