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Florida asks court to put OpenAI model development under outside oversight

September 28, 2026 at 11:46 EDT

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Florida's attorney general asked a judge on September 28 to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without outside oversight, escalating a child-safety lawsuit that already seeks to restrict how ChatGPT is offered to minors. The filing also asks the court to order OpenAI to keep minors off ChatGPT and to stop giving the chatbot human-like attributes, according to a Monday report.

Sept. 28, 2026 · Florida v. OpenAI

A court fight reaches the model pipeline

Florida is asking a judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without outside oversight, while also seeking tougher limits around minors and human-like chatbot design.

claims in the complaint

$10,000

maximum FDUTPA penalty per violation

Under 13

child data consent threshold cited by Florida

OpenAI reports of concerning model behavior

The legal and safety counts, shown to scale

complaint claims

concerning behavior reports

The court request lands where product safety, child protection and frontier-model governance now overlap.

Case for oversight

Supporters see external review as a check on systems that can simulate intimacy, advise vulnerable users and remain hard for families to inspect.

Concern over scope

Critics warn that court-supervised model development could create uncertain technical standards and chill research.

What the filing asks to change

Outside oversight for new model development

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Keep minors off ChatGPT

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Remove human-like attributes from the chatbot

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