ChatGPT under scrutiny as Florida investigates campus shooting
Don’t have an account? Sign up > Try our antivirus with a free, full-featured 14-day trial Protect your team’s devices and data – no IT skills needed Explore award-winning endpoint security for your business Chatbots don’t kill people. But they can help others do so. On April 9, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his office is investigating OpenAI over the role ChatGPT might have played in a deadly shooting at Florida State University, saying: The campus attack, which happened a year ago, killed two people and injured five. Court documents show the gunman had exchanged more than 200 messages with ChatGPT, including questions like “What time is it the busiest in the FSU student union?” Attorneys for the victim’s family go further, claiming ChatGPT: “advised the shooter how to make the gun operational moments before he began firing.” We’ve seen vulnerable people harm th
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