FSU shooter logged off 4 minutes before shooting
Phoenix Eichner ended his ChatGPT conversation just 4 minutes before prosecutors say he began shooting at Florida State University.
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The Lawsuit: $1 Billion and the Meeting as Evidence
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Jay Edelson describes visiting Tumbler Ridge as the hardest professional experience of his life. In a town where everyone is connected to someone who was killed or wounded, the grief is total. His clients are angry — and they want more than an apology. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of releasing a defective product, of failing to warn authorities, and of effectively aiding and abetting the attack. Edelson says the internal meeting where senior leaders decided to leave the reporting threshold unchanged is the smoking gun of the case — he wants to put juries in that room. The families are seeking historic punitive damages exceeding $1 billion. A key missing piece: Edelson doesn't yet have van Rootzeler's actual chat logs, which would be needed to establish exactly how ChatGPT shaped her plans. [1] — Jay Edelson "Lawyer Jay Edelson is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from OpenAI on behalf of 7 Tumbler Ridge victims' families, accusing the comp…" 24:50
Florida Sues OpenAI: Criminal Culpability for a Chatbot
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer announced the state is suing OpenAI over the FSU shooting and launched a criminal investigation. He argued that if a human had given Eichner the same gun advice, that person would be charged with murder. Just because it was a chatbot, he said, doesn't mean there's no criminal culpability.
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