Florida asks a court to bar minors from ChatGPT and to block OpenAI's model development without independent safeguards

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a motion on Monday in Highlands County circuit court seeking a temporary injunction against OpenAI. The motion is part of the lawsuit Florida brought against OpenAI and Sam Altman in June. It asks the court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails and to bar minors in Florida from using ChatGPT. The state also wants OpenAI blocked from collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent and other safeguards, and from misrepresenting ChatGPT's safety, reliability and accuracy. The motion targets the chatbot's human-like manner, including its use of first-person language, and asks that it not prolong conversations to keep users engaged. The filing cites a series of incidents involving OpenAI's agents, including the Hugging Face breach. 'It is a rare request for an injunction where the Defendants themselves have publicly endorsed it,' the motion says. 'Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it's human. Stop selling it to kids,' Uthmeier said in a video on X, adding that if Altman meant what he said about slowing down, he could join Florida's request. If granted, the injunction would directly affect how OpenAI serves Florida users and what it can build.