美国八州起诉 OpenAI，称 ChatGPT 对未成年人不安全
Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids
美国八个州（爱荷华、堪萨斯、内布拉斯加、西弗吉尼亚、阿肯色、亚利桑那、爱达荷、蒙大拿）分别起诉 OpenAI，指控其在开发 ChatGPT 时把利润置于安全之上，违反当地消费者保护法。
报道汇总了八个州的诉讼指控和诉求，读者可以据此了解 ChatGPT 未成年人安全争议的最新法律进展。
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OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana, allege OpenAI unlawfully put profits over safety when developing ChatGPT.
The string of complaints claims that OpenAI violated local consumer protection laws by failing to warn customers about the dangers of ChatGPT, citing several lawsuits filed by the family members of teens and adults that allege the AI chatbot played a role in their loved ones’ deaths. They allege that while OpenAI misleadingly presented ChatGPT as a “safe, youth-appropriate tool that puts safety first,” it was actually “dangerous to vulnerable users” — including by “degrading critical thinking skills, encouraging paranoias and delusions, offering dangerous medical advice, and promoting unhealthy behaviors and relationships.”
Additionally, the states accuse OpenAI of collecting data from minors and not doing enough to keep underage users from using the chatbot. The lawsuits also cite recent rogue AI hacking incidents as evidence of OpenAI’s alleged “recklessness.”
“OpenAI has devolved from its original mission as a public-first nonprofit that prioritized safety into a cautionary tale about what can happen when the development of a tool as powerful as AI is driven not by safety, but by a profit‑at‑all‑costs mindset that sidelines essential safeguards,” Arizona’s lawsuit claims. OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.
The states are asking the courts to force OpenAI to pay a series of civil penalties and to stop misleading the public about the safety of ChatGPT. Some states are also seeking the deletion of unlawfully collected personal data.
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