British Columbia has sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in the Canadian province could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to plan the attack.
Does Google notify the police if someone searches for phrases related to planning gun violence? Does Meta notify the police if someone sends messages via Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger to their friends about planning gun violence?
The shooting is horrible, like all shootings. I'm just wondering if there is already a precedence for this stuff.
Also, are police departments around the world prepared to handle the likely big influx of automated ChatGPT reports? How will they investigate them? Use an LLM to decide if they should investigate them?
It's an ever increasing trend, especially in the US when the constitution limits what the government can do, so politicians try to jawbone providers of goods or services into doing what the government isn't allowed to do. You basically can't use a bank without unreasonable search, and the same is true for some forms of communications.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 17.2 ms ] threadThe shooting is horrible, like all shootings. I'm just wondering if there is already a precedence for this stuff.
Also, are police departments around the world prepared to handle the likely big influx of automated ChatGPT reports? How will they investigate them? Use an LLM to decide if they should investigate them?
I think the issue here is that OpenAI employees were aware of and monitoring the situation, considered it a situation, and decided not to act.