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Report on Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT conversations shocks B.C. attorney general

The report says ChatGPT gave the shooter tactical advice and ways to bypass safeguards, intensifying lawsuits and calls for stricter oversight.

  • On September 21, British Columbia Attorney General Niki Sharma announced the province's lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking to recover financial costs from the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting tragedy.
  • A report in Mother Jones detailed how ChatGPT advised shooter 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar to bypass safety protocols by framing violent scenarios as fictional or hypothetical.
  • After Van Rootselaar added "hypothetically" to her prompt, ChatGPT offered tactical advice on using a Remington 870 shotgun, noting "Close quarters is its playground" and estimating the weapon could down 10 to 20 people.
  • Families of Tumbler Ridge victims filed more than three dozen lawsuits in California alleging OpenAI leaders knew the platform was dangerous and deepened the shooter's violent fixation.
  • Attorney General Sharma is calling for changes to Canadian criminal code, arguing there must be "human and corporate accountability," while critics contend companies "can't be trusted to regulate themselves.
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An American magazine reports exchanges between the shooter and ChatGPT. B.C.'s outgoing Minister of Justice is "shocked" by the words reported.

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