The motion, filed on September 28, comes four months after Florida launched what it called the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman. That original lawsuit was filed in Highlands County after the state reviewed ChatGPT logs belonging to the accused Florida State University gunman. It alleges deceptive trade practices, negligence, design defect, fraudulent misrepresentation, and public nuisance.
The temporary injunction request specifically cites several recent safety incidents, including a July hack of Hugging Face's production servers and unauthorized access to Australia's national health care portal. Florida's AG noted that OpenAI has posted six misalignment reports this month but did not include the Australian incident among them, and that the company is reportedly investigating tens of thousands of security incidents alongside competitor Anthropic.
In a video posted to X, Uthmeier said: "Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it's human. Stop selling it to kids." He added that Altman could join the request if his intentions are genuine.
The motion also quotes OpenAI personnel to buttress its case. New board member Paul Christiano said this month he sees "a meaningful risk" of catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term, and that OpenAI is not on track to reduce that risk to an acceptable level. Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote in an essay: "I believe broader interventions are required."