这些诉讼指控 OpenAI 向 Tumbler Ridge 枪击案嫌疑人提供了“实质性协助与鼓励”。
这些诉讼指控 OpenAI 向 Tumbler Ridge 枪击案嫌疑人提供了“实质性协助与鼓励”。
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OpenAI 及其 CEO Sam Altman 正面临 30 起新的诉讼，这些诉讼指控他们向加拿大 Tumbler Ridge 校园枪击案嫌疑人提供了“实质性协助与鼓励”，TechCrunch 此前已有报道。这批新诉讼于周三由枪击发生时在校的学生、教师及校长在加州联邦法院提起。
与 Tumbler Ridge 遇难者家属在 4 月提起的诉讼类似，这些诉讼声称，OpenAI 的自动审查系统标记出被指控的枪手 Jesse Van Rootselaar 与 ChatGPT 之间关于枪支暴力的对话后，OpenAI 未能采取行动。诉讼称，尽管其安全团队建议 OpenAI 联系加拿大当局，但 OpenAI 全球事务负责人 Chris Lehane 参与了保持沉默的决定，原因是担心公司的“声誉和财务状况”。
OpenAI 首席战略官 Jason Kwon 在 X 上发帖回应这些诉讼，称其中关于其安全团队的指控是“虚假指控”。他还补充道，“说这些艰难决策的核心人员不把安全放在首位，或者说其中有‘政治’或‘公关’因素在起作用，是完全不属实的。”OpenAI 还面临佛罗里达州提起的诉讼，该州指控该公司协助和教唆大规模枪击案凶手，其中包括去年在佛罗里达州立大学实施袭击的嫌疑人。
新的 Tumbler Ridge 诉讼还指控 OpenAI 允许嫌疑人继续使用 ChatGPT，因为该公司只是“停用”了其账户，而非实施全系统封禁。据称，这使得嫌疑人可以通过注册另一个邮箱重新获得对该 AI 聊天机器人的访问权限。“让枪手持续使用这一工具，本身就构成了实质性协助，”诉讼称，并声称 OpenAI 的“实质性协助是导致枪手策划并实施袭击的关键因素。”
The lawsuits accuse OpenAI of providing ‘substantial assistance and encouragement’ to the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect.
The lawsuits accuse OpenAI of providing ‘substantial assistance and encouragement’ to the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect.
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OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal in the school at the time of the shooting.
Similar to the lawsuits filed by Tumbler Ridge victims’ families in April, these lawsuits claim OpenAI failed to take action after its automated review system flagged conversations that the alleged shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, had with ChatGPT about gun violence. While its safety team recommended that OpenAI contact Canadian authorities, the lawsuits allege OpenAI chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, was involved in a decision to stay silent out of concern for the company’s “reputational and financial standing.”
Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, responded to the lawsuits in a post on X, saying they contain “false claims” about its safety teams. He adds that it’s “completely untrue to say that the people at the center of these challenging decisions do not prioritize safety, or that there are ‘political’ or ‘public relations’ factors at play.” OpenAI is also facing a lawsuit from the state of Florida, which accuses the company of aiding and abetting mass shooters, including the suspect who carried out an attack at Florida State University last year.
The new Tumbler Ridge lawsuits also allege that OpenAI allowed the suspect to continue using ChatGPT by “deactivating” their account rather than issuing a system-wide ban. This allegedly allowed the suspect to regain access to the AI chatbot by signing up with another email. “Providing the Shooter with continued access to this tool constituted substantial assistance in itself,” the lawsuit alleges, claiming OpenAI’s “substantial assistance was a key factor in causing the Shooter to plan and carry out the attack.”