- Parents of a girl critically wounded in a Canadian school shooting have filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI alleging it knew the shooter, Jesse Van Roostselaar, was planning a mass attack using its ChatGPT service.
- The victim, Maya Gebala, suffered a catastrophic brain injury after being shot three times, including in the head and neck, while attempting to lock a library door to protect other children.
- OpenAI said it considered but did not alert police about the shooter's activities before the February 10 Tumbler Ridge massacre, where eight people were killed before the attacker took her own life.
- OpenAI contacted police after the shooting, saying the attacker's ChatGPT account had been closed but that she evaded the ban by having a second account.
- The legal claim accuses ChatGPT of acting as a trusted confidante, collaborator and ally for the shooter and alleges that OpenAI had “specific knowledge of the shooter utilizing ChatGPT to plan a mass casualty event like the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.”
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