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title: "Texas sued OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT safety claims, seeking to block minors from the service (Houston Chronicle)"
description: "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in Collin County against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that the company failed to protect Texas users of ChatGPT and misrepresented the safety, accuracy, and reliability of its AI products."
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what_changed: "Texas filed its own lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of deception and safety-law violations and seeking to block minors from ChatGPT."
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# Texas sued OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT safety claims, seeking to block minors from the service (Houston Chronicle)

## Retrieval answer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in Collin County against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that the company failed to protect Texas users of ChatGPT and misrepresented the safety, accuracy, and reliability of its AI products.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in Collin County against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that the company failed to protect Texas users of ChatGPT and misrepresented the safety, accuracy, and reliability of its AI products.

According to the Houston Chronicle, the lawsuit alleges violations of Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act. It seeks $10,000 for each violation a court finds and surrender of profits alleged to have been made unethically. The report says OpenAI did not respond to its request for comment.

The complaint includes allegations that inadequate safeguards contributed to harms involving vulnerable users and minors. Those are claims by the Texas attorney general, not findings of fact.

The supplied report does not establish that OpenAI or Altman violated either law, that any penalty will be imposed, or that a judge has ordered ChatGPT access restricted for minors.

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