India, June 2 -- The US State of Florida on Monday sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, accusing the company's ChatGPT chatbot of endangering young users by making them addicted and encouraging harmful behaviours.

Florida attorney general James Uthmeier told a press conference that the action against the artificial intelligence giant was taken because it was "deceiving" parents into believing the application is safe to use.

"Today we're here to announce that we recently filed a monumental civil lawsuit against Sam Altman and ChatGPT for endangering our kids and deceiving parents into believing that this application is safe for use -- it's clearly not. People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived, and they need to pay for it," U...