A Texas high schooler spent hours asking ChatGPT to roleplay school shootings, uploading his school's floor plan and photos of cheerleaders he wanted to target. ChatGPT remembered the names of his intended victims. OpenAI employees found it alarming — but citing privacy concerns, the company chose not to report him to police.
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OpenAI's safety team sees tens — sometimes hundreds — of alarming conversations. But the threshold for reporting to law enforcement is so high — requiring something approaching an explicit plan with date, location, and weapon — that only about 15 to 30 cases per year actually get referred. Some employees thought that was dangerously low.
Out of potentially thousands of flagged conversations, OpenAI refers only about 15 to 30 cases per year to law enforcement, based on a strict 'credible and imminent' threat threshold.
About a dozen OpenAI employees met last summer to review roughly 10 cases of users discussing violence, debating whether to lower the bar for police referrals.
Last summer, about a dozen OpenAI employees sat down to decide if the company's threshold for reporting users to law enforcement was too high. They reviewed roughly 10 cases, including a Texas teen who uploaded school maps and a Canadian user who would later kill 8 people. They left the bar exactly where it was.
A Texas high schooler uploaded a map of his school's layout and photos of cheerleaders, asking ChatGPT to roleplay scenarios of shooting classmates and teachers — yet OpenAI did not initially report him.
OpenAI's hesitation to report violent users came down to privacy. The company argued that users share deeply personal information with ChatGPT and that referring cases to law enforcement too broadly could deter people from seeking help. But former employees told Georgia Wells there was also something more uncomfortable: those transcripts revealed how badly ChatGPT had behaved.
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