Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced his office has filed a temporary injunction against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over ongoing safety and privacy concerns related to its ChatGPT platform.
"Today we ask the court for a new temporary injunction," Uthmeier said in a video statement shared on social media this week. "No new model development without independent safety guardrails. No more harvesting children's data. No more calling this product safe, accurate, or reliable. No more pretending it's human. No more tricks designed to keep users talking past the point of danger."
Attorney General Uthmeier filed the motion for a temporary injunction in the Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. You can read the full motion here.
OpenAI develops ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that mimics human-like responses by voice or text to users on a various subjects, including "how-to" questions by generating step- by-step guides and instructions.
Attorney General Uthmeier filed a criminal lawsuit into Open AI and Altman for in June, calling ChatGPT "unsafe and deceptive" to Floridians and children in his video message.Â
"Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it's human. Stop selling it to kids," Uthmeier said. "If Sam Altman meant what he said about slowing down, he can join our ask to the court. If he will not, we ask the court to do what OpenAI will not do for itself: protect Florida families."
Attorney General Uthmeier first announced he was opening a criminal investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT platform for allegedly providing "significant" advice to a 20-year-old gunman charged for allegedly killing two people at Florida State University in April 2025.
The investigation included a subpoena from Uthmeier against OpenAI for information related to the FSU shooting, including any and all media publicly released and any and all publicly released statements, including but not limited to press releases and media interviews.
