by Dan Frieth, Reclaim The Net:
Florida wants a court to force OpenAI to verify how old you are before ChatGPT will talk to you freely and the demand reaches far past the children the state says it wants to protect.
Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil suit on Monday against OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman, calling it the first state-led case of its kind.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
Most of the coverage has gone to the alleged harms. The complaint accuses the company of feeding content unsuitable for children to minors and states that “vulnerable people have been encouraged into suicide.”
The FDA missed its own deadline this week to ban electric shock devices used to punish self-injurious or aggressive behavior in disabled adults and children, including those with autism. The controversial practice, condemned by the United Nations as a form of torture, is now used by only the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center. The center, based in Massachusetts, operates 50 residences.
MFLUSIVA triggers six times more severe reactions for less than 1% absolute benefit, Moderna scientists admitted last month in the New England Journal of Medicine.
