Engadget Vandana Joshi, the widow of Florida State University employee Tiru Chabba, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company's ChatGPT chatbot supplied the shooter, Phoenix Ikner, with detailed guidance that helped plan the April 2025 campus massacre. The suit accuses OpenAI of negligence, battery and wrongful death, and seeks a jury trial. OpenAI says the model only provided factual, publicly available information and that it cooperated with authorities, while Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has opened a criminal investigation into the tech firm’s role in the tragedy.
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