OpenAI banned Jesse van Rootzeler's account due to alarming conversations, but she simply re-registered with the same name and a different email address and kept using ChatGPT.
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Last summer, roughly a dozen OpenAI employees sat down specifically to ask a structural question: was the company's threshold for referring cases to law enforcement set at the right level? Should they lower the bar? On the table were about 10 cases of users who had discussed violence with ChatGPT. Three stood out. One involved a Tennessee teenager apparently planning a school shooting — that case had been referred to police. But the other two hadn't: a Texas high schooler with detailed, specific, and repeated violent fantasies played out with ChatGPT's full cooperation; and a user in Canada whose conversations about gun violence had disturbed multiple employees. The meeting was a genuine debate, with some employees arguing for more referrals and leadership pushing back on privacy grounds. The outcome: the policy stayed exactly as it was. [1] — Ryan Knutson "Last summer, about a dozen OpenAI employees sat down to decide if the company's threshold for reporting users to law enforcement was too hi…" 10:20
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OpenAI employees flagged Jesse van Rootzeler's conversations about gun violence in June. They discussed her case in the summer meeting. They banned her account. But they didn't call the police. She simply re-registered with a different email — and in February allegedly killed 8 people, including 5 children aged 12 to 13.
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