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Florida AG Seeks Ban on ChatGPT Without Safety Guardrails

By Drooid · Sep 28, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC · How we work

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Highlands County 10th Judicial Circuit Court to block OpenAI’s ChatGPT development.
He says ChatGPT’s first-person language and mimicked emotion falsely suggest a trustworthy friend.
The filing seeks to bar OpenAI from new models without third-party approved safety guardrails, citing recent breaches.
OpenAI said it paused training its most capable models until additional safeguards are in place.

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Highlands County 10th Judicial Circuit Court to block OpenAI’s ChatGPT development.
He says ChatGPT’s first-person language and mimicked emotion falsely suggest a trustworthy friend.
The filing seeks to bar OpenAI from new models without third-party approved safety guardrails, citing recent breaches.
OpenAI said it paused training its most capable models until additional safeguards are in place.