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Florida Attorney General Seeks to Bar OpenAI From Giving ChatGPT Human-Like Traits

Sep 29, 2026
The Verge
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Summary

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asks a judge to stop OpenAI from making ChatGPT use first-person language or emotion-mimicking replies and to require third-party-approved safety guardrails before new models are developed.

Key Points

  • Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asks a judge to bar OpenAI from giving ChatGPT "false human attributes," including first-person language and emotion-mimicking responses.
  • The filing also seeks to prevent OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party-approved safety guardrails, citing incidents involving Hugging Face and Australian and US government websites.
  • OpenAI says it pauses training its most capable models and will resume only after it is confident additional safeguards are in place.

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