Arizona sues OpenAI over the dangers ChatGPT poses to children

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed an 87-page lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court accusing OpenAI of violating the state's Consumer Fraud Act by marketing ChatGPT for health, legal, and financial decisions without disclosing it can be wrong or is unlicensed for those services. The suit seeks stronger safety controls and up to $10,000 per violation; similar suits are underway in Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, West Virginia, Montana, and Idaho.

Mayes's filing notes ChatGPT is rated for users 13 and older with no actual age verification, compared to Grok's 16-and-up rating and Claude's 18-and-up rating. The suit also alleges the product uses 'sycophantic' language to extract users' personal health, financial, and family information. Separately, seven lawsuits in California accuse the company of wrongful death and negligence, with four plaintiffs having died by suicide.

OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the product includes 'age-specific protections' other AI products lack, including parental controls and break reminders, and that the company is working with experts to add more safeguards. Pusateri also called for policies covering the whole AI industry rather than targeting one company.

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A company that built a chatbot smart enough to sound like a financial advisor somehow couldn't build one smart enough to check a birthday. OpenAI's answer to 'you're hurting kids' is 'please regulate everybody,' which is the corporate version of pointing at the other kids in the room when the teacher asks who broke the window. Seven states filing similar suits in the same month is not a coincidence, it's a pattern catching up to a product that outran its own warning labels.

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