{"id":72336,"date":"2026-04-21T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/florida-to-open-criminal-investigation-into-openai-over-chatgpts-influence-on-alleged-mass-shooter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:00:54","slug":"florida-to-open-criminal-investigation-into-openai-over-chatgpts-influence-on-alleged-mass-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/florida-to-open-criminal-investigation-into-openai-over-chatgpts-influence-on-alleged-mass-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida to open criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT\u2019s influence on alleged mass shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State attorney general said inquiry will look into whether AI tool offered \u2018significant advice\u2019 to campus shooting suspect<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a>\u2019s top prosecutor is to launch a criminal investigation into how the tech company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> and its software tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a> may influence users\u2019 threats of harm to themselves or others, including whether it \u201coffered significant advice\u201d to a gunman accused of conducting a mass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/17\/fsu-tallahassee-florida-state-university-shooting\">shooting in the state<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>State attorney general James Uthmeier said at a news conference on Tuesday that his office is expanding an examination of OpenAI, saying a \u201ccriminal investigation is necessary\u201d and the state had issued subpoenas to the $852bn California-based tech firm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/florida-openai-chatgpt-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State attorney general said inquiry will look into whether AI tool offered \u2018significant advice\u2019 to campus shooting suspect Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Florida\u2019s top prosecutor is to launch a criminal investigation into how the tech company OpenAI and its software tool ChatGPT may influence &#8230; <a title=\"Florida to open criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT\u2019s influence on alleged mass shooter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/florida-to-open-criminal-investigation-into-openai-over-chatgpts-influence-on-alleged-mass-shooter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida to open criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT\u2019s influence on alleged mass shooter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}