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Province of BC Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge School Shooting

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  British Columbia has sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in the Canadian province could have been prevented if the company had warned local  law enforcement that the shooter  had used ChatGPT to  plan the attack.

Does Google notify the police if someone searches for phrases related to planning gun violence? Does Meta notify the police if someone sends messages via Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger to their friends about planning gun violence? More importantly, is any platform, online or offline, responsible for contacting the police if it thinks someone might be planning a shooting? For example, if someone on Hacker News posts something, is Dang responsible for contacting the police? What is the threshold for ignore, delete post, or contacting local authorities?

The shooting is horrible, like all shootings. I'm just wondering if there is already a precedence for this stuff.

Also, are police departments around the world prepared to handle the likely big influx of automated ChatGPT notifications? How will they investigate them? Use an LLM to decide if they should investigate them?

I'm not blaming anyone but I think these questions need to be answered, thought through.

>Does Google notify the police if someone searches for phrases related to planning gun violence?

I think the issue here is that OpenAI employees were aware of and monitoring the situation, considered it a situation, and decided not to act.

I think I heard today they were aware the agents where using message boards et al to communicate during the HuggingFace incident, and decided not to look or act then either. Sensing a pattern here

I'm not sure if that's relevant. For all we know, Google's system also flagged the same person and at least 1 human being looked at it.

It's an ever increasing trend, especially in the US when the constitution limits what the government can do, so politicians try to jawbone providers of goods or services into doing what the government isn't allowed to do. You basically can't use a bank without unreasonable search, and the same is true for some forms of communications.

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