Comment by ollin

Not just bad headlines; OpenAI is actively being sued [1] for this:

    OpenAI’s stated rationale was a concern for the shooter’s privacy, but its own interests
    better explain its silence. Upon information and belief, OpenAI was seeking to avoid implementation of a
    hard line rule to refer planning of real-world violence to authorities, perhaps due to how frequently its
    product is implicated in threats to human life. Requiring such disclosures would be incompatible with the
    company’s public position that ChatGPT is safe. It could also threaten the valuation underlying OpenAI’s
    anticipated initial public offering. Rather than expose those risks, OpenAI accepted the consequences of
    its silence. A mass murder in the only secondary school in Tumbler Ridge followed.

    Accordingly, the Crown, led by Attorney General Sharma, and SD59 jointly bring this
    action to hold OpenAI and Sam Altman accountable for designing a dangerous product, distributing it to
    every home with internet access, ignoring the warnings of their own safety team,
    refusing to notify authorities when they knew the shooter was planning gun violence, inviting the shooter back onto the
    platform after deactivating the shooter’s account, and choosing corporate self-interest over the lives of
    children. They seek compensation for the not just foreseeable but known harm OpenAI inflicted, the
    damages that they incurred and are incurring, and injunctive relief to ensure that this tragedy does not
    happen again.

[1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Briti...