Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI

The family of one of the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge is suing OpenAI.

The mother of Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old who remains in hospital after the shooting on Feb. 10, alleges the tech company failed to alert authorities to chat prompts from the shooter related to violence.

The claim was filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday on behalf of Gebala by her mother, Cia Edmonds.

It alleges that the company designed its chat tool, ChatGPT, in such a way that there were risks users “would become psychologically and socially dependent” upon it.

The lawsuit states that the company “had specific knowledge of the shooter’s long-range planning of a mass casualty event,” but “took no steps to act upon this knowledge.”

CBC News has reached out to OpenAI for a response to the lawsuit. None of the claims have been proven in court.

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