NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Florida’s attorney general on Monday sued OpenAI and its chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Altman, accusing the company’s ChatGPT chatbot of endangering young users by making them addicted and encouraging harmful behaviours.

“Today we’re here to announce that we recently filed a monumental civil lawsuit against Sam Altman and ChatGPT for endangering our kids and deceiving parents into believing that this application is safe for use — it’s clearly not,” James Uthmeier said at a press conference.

“People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived, and they need to pay for it.”