A lawsuit alleges that Chat GPT helped a gunman plan an attack at Florida State University last year and gave him advice on picking targets.
Phoenix Ikner has been accused ofkilling two peopleand wounding six others in the April attack.
Vandana Joshi, the widow of Tiru Chabba, who was killed in the attack, filed the federal lawsuit against OpenAI, according toNBC News.
The lawsuit said that ChatGPT told Ikner that getting national attention is more likely “if children are involved, even 2-3 victims can draw more attention.”
NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAIhttps://t.co/RaEaiEVj5D
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The search also gave Ikner information about guns he had, according to the lawsuit, allegedly “telling him the Glock had no safety, that it was meant to be fired ‘quick to use under stress’ and advising him to keep his finger off the trigger until he was ready to shoot.”
ChatGPT also allegedly told Ikner the busiest time for an attack would be between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the student union on weekdays. The attack began moments before noon.
“OpenAI knew this would happen. It’s happened before and it was only a matter of time before it happened again,” Joshi said in a Monday statement. “But they chose to put their profits over our safety and it killed my husband. They need to be responsible before another family has to go through this.”
In case you needed more proof that OpenAI is building Skynet with ChatGPT, here’s ChatGPT giving the FSU shooter explicit tips and instructions on how to cause the most casualties when attacking the campus.https://t.co/9189uDErZ3pic.twitter.com/H62QmCPB2m
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