India, April 29 -- Families of the victims from a tragic school shooting in Tumbler Ridge have taken legal action against OpenAI, claiming negligence and asserting that its chatbot technology played a role in the incident.
The seven lawsuits, filed in federal court in San Francisco, allege that OpenAI didn't respond to warning signs and that its version of ChatGPT was inadequate because it failed to intervene when the attacker showed violent intentions.
The families believe the company should have alerted authorities after recognizing concerning behavior linked to the shooter's interactions with the chatbot.
The complaints reveal that the shooter had been heavily engaging with ChatGPT, including the GPT-4o model, several months before th...