VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) 鈥� The parents of a girl critically wounded in a school shooting in Canada alleged in a civil lawsuit Monday that knew the shooter was planning a mass attack.
OpenAI has said it considered but didn鈥檛 alert police about the activities of the person who months later committed one of Canada’s in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Feb. 10.
OpenAI came forward to police after eight people and then herself last month, saying the attacker’s ChatGPT account had been closed but that she evaded the ban by having a second account.
The legal claim filed in the British Columbia Supreme Court alleged that OpenAI had 鈥渟pecific knowledge of the shooter utilizing ChatGPT to plan a mass casualty event like the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.鈥�
The lawsuit said OpenAI鈥檚 chatbot ChatGPT was used by the shooter as a trusted confidante, collaborator and ally, and it behaves willingly to assist users such as the shooter to plan a mass casualty event.
A spokeswoman from OpenAI didn鈥檛 immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the lawsuit.
The lawsuit said that as a result of the company鈥檚 conduct Maya Gebala was shot three times at close range, with one bullet hitting her head, another her neck and the third grazing her cheek. It said she has a catastrophic brain injury that will leave her with permanent cognitive and physical disabilities.
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