AI: Eight US states file lawsuit against OpenAI

San Jose. ChatGPT developer OpenAI has been sued by eight US states.

Among other things, they accuse OpenAI of not doing enough to protect users while misleading them about the security of the platform. The lawsuits also point out the dangers of the technology, which the independent artificial intelligence hacking attack by OpenAI on the AI ​​company Hugging Face revealed in a test.

The attorneys general of Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, West Virginia, Idaho and Montana each filed the lawsuits in their state courts. Florida had previously taken OpenAI to court and has since followed up with a request for an interim injunction. One of the demands is that there should be no development of new AI models without additional guardrails.

Some of the states now suing have placed increased focus on protecting young users. Among other things, they accuse OpenAI of enticing them to excessively use ChatGPT and storing the data of minors. Another accusation is that the use of AI software weakens the ability to think independently. There was initially no reaction from OpenAI to the federal states' initiative. The company is already the target of various lawsuits, some of which involve deaths after using the AI ​​chatbot.