Texas AG Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT Harms, Seeks to Hold Altman Personally Liable
Summary
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT lacks adequate safeguards and can produce inaccurate or harmful output without disclosing the risk. The claims run under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act and the SCOPE Act, and Paxton alleges the chatbots aided and abetted mass shooters, encouraged suicide, eroded critical thinking and were addictive for minors. Texas seeks more than $1 million in monetary relief plus an injunction to stop the practices, and wants CEO Sam Altman held personally liable. The dollar ask is small for a company of OpenAI's scale, but the personal-liability demand and the state-level consumer-protection theory raise the stakes. This lands after a run of safety headlines — the July Hugging Face breach, the UK safety institute's findings on the Sol model, and the September disclosure of the DseWiki incident — giving regulators and plaintiffs a documented pattern to cite.
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