Florida has sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of marketing ChatGPT as safe and reliable while hiding the risks it poses to users.
The lawsuit, filed Sunday, June 1, 2026, centers on what the state calls a deliberate failure to warn – that OpenAI knew ChatGPT could be dangerous and chose not to disclose that to the people using it.
Not a minor claim. Florida is essentially arguing that OpenAI ran a consumer deception operation while one of the most widely used AI tools in the world was rolling out to millions of people.
According to the suit, OpenAI actively promoted ChatGPT as trustworthy rather than flagging risks that the state contends the company was aware of. Altman, as CEO, is named as a defendant alongside the company itself – a move that puts personal legal exposure on the executive who has been the public face of the ChatGPT rollout since its launch.
The complaint doesn’t appear to allege a single specific incident of harm spelled out in the available details; instead it frames the problem as systemic – a pattern of misleading marketing that left users without the information they’d need to make informed choices about whether to use the product at all.
OpenAI hasn’t publicly responded to the filing, at least not in any statements available as of Sunday. Whether Altman or the company will contest the claims in court or seek a settlement isn’t yet known. The case is still in its earliest stage.
Florida’s action adds to a growing stack of legal scrutiny facing AI developers over how they describe – and don’t describe — the limitations and risks of their products. What specific remedies the state is seeking, or where the case will be heard, hadn’t been disclosed as of the time of the NPR report.
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