Eight people were killed by 18-year-old in Canada, who had described violent scenarios involving guns to ChatGPT
The family of a child critically injured one of Canada’s worst mass shootings is suing OpenAI, arguing the technology company could have prevented the attack on a school last month.
The lawsuit comes days after the head of OpenAI said he would apologize to the families of a remote Canadian town after violence shattered the tight-knit community.
Eight people – including five school students, aged 12 to 13, and a 39-year-old teaching assistant – were killed by an 18-year-old shooter in the mountain town of Tumbler Ridge on 10 February.
It later emerged that the shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, who died of a self-inflicted injury, had described violent scenarios involving guns to ChatGPT over several days in June, which an automated review system flagged, according to the Wall Street Journal.
