Florida asks court to curb OpenAI model training and restrict ChatGPT for minors

The filing tests how far a state can go in imposing AI safety rules and age limits on a widely used tool.

Florida’s attorney general has asked a state court for an emergency injunction that would bar OpenAI from training new models without independent safety oversight and require blocking minors from accessing ChatGPT in Florida. The motion, part of a civil suit first filed in June after a criminal investigation tied to a 2025 Florida State University mass shooting, argues that ChatGPT poses a public safety risk, especially to children and unstable or violent users. The filing leans on recent security disclosures, including issues linked to the Hugging Face breach, and cites industry warnings about catastrophic misalignment risk and calls to slow frontier model development as support for stronger guardrails. Florida’s brief also points to OpenAI’s own public statements about slowing development, framing the requested injunction as consistent with what the company has asked regulators to do. OpenAI has previously responded that ChatGPT is a general-purpose tool heavily used for legitimate purposes and that it continues to improve safeguards to detect harmful intent and limit misuse.