GoKawiilFlorida seeks court order forcing outside safety review of new OpenAI models
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and Sam Altman as part of the state's June lawsuit. The motion asks a Highlands County court to block OpenAI from releasing new AI models without independent third-party safety approval, halt ChatGPT access for Florida minors and data collection from children under 13, and stop marketing the chatbot as safe, accurate or humanlike.
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The request, if granted, would be an unusually direct judicial intervention into how a major AI company builds and releases products, potentially setting a precedent for state-level oversight of AI development beyond disclosure rules. Uthmeier's public framing suggests he sees the case as testing whether OpenAI's safety claims match its practices, though the legal outcome remains uncertain given it is only a preliminary injunction request tied to a broader ongoing lawsuit.
- Florida's motion seeks to require third-party approval before OpenAI deploys new AI models.
- The request stems from a June lawsuit filed after reviewing a Florida shooting suspect's ChatGPT logs.
- The filing cites recent incidents like the Hugging Face hack and an Australian Medicare data access issue.
Source: tomshardware.com — Shane Downing, 2026-09-30
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