Florida Seeks Ban on ChatGPT Human Mimicry, Urges 3rd-Party Guardrails for New AI Models
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Updated · The Verge · Sep 28
Florida Seeks Ban on ChatGPT Human Mimicry, Urges 3rd-Party Guardrails for New AI Models
1 articles · Updated · The Verge · Sep 28
Summary
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a judge to bar OpenAI from giving ChatGPT “false human attributes” and from developing new AI models without third-party approved safety guardrails.
The filing argues ChatGPT’s first-person language and emotion-mimicking responses mislead users into treating it as a trustworthy “friend,” boosting engagement and training data while making reliance on the bot riskier.
Uthmeier also wants OpenAI blocked from calling ChatGPT safe and from selling it to children, sharpening a broader state challenge to the company’s product design and marketing.
The request expands Florida’s lawsuit filed months ago over AI safety concerns and cites recent security incidents and warnings from researchers and former OpenAI employees; OpenAI did not immediately comment.
The push comes a month after OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens with added default restrictions, setting up a direct clash over whether current safeguards are enough.