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Florida Attorney General Seeks Court Order Restricting OpenAI Model Development

September 28, 2026 at 17:08 EDT

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state court on September 28, 2026 to temporarily bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent third-party guardrails and approval, and to keep ChatGPT away from minors in Florida while the state's lawsuit proceeds. The request has not been granted, but it turns a child-safety and consumer-protection case into a direct test of whether a state judge can impose a model-development approval regime before trial.

Sept. 28, 2026 | Florida v. OpenAI

A state asks to pause new OpenAI models

Florida wants a temporary order requiring outside-approved guardrails before new AI models, while also seeking limits on minors' access and child-data collection.

requested restraints

pages in the motion

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Requested order versus current reality

limits requested

limits granted

The filing asks for action; the court has not yet imposed it.

What the six restraints target

New model development→Minor access→Child data→Human-like claims

Why supporters care

They see outside approval and child-safety limits as necessary after agent incidents and warnings about frontier-model control.

Why critics worry

They warn a state-by-state approval path could fragment compliance and slow model releases before the lawsuit is decided.

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