After the Florida State University shooting, it came out that the shooter had used ChatGPT repeatedly beforehand — sharing his fixation on a specific woman and asking when to act. That's in the record. So Florida opened a criminal investigation into the company behind it, a first in American history. Then, in court, OpenAI was asked a simple question: do you bear any responsibility? They said no.
Here's why that answer matters. We've been here before with other industries. Tobacco companies never lit anyone's cigarette either — but they knew the danger, kept selling, and were eventually held accountable. The argument 'we just made the product, what people do with it isn't our problem' has been tested before, and it doesn't always hold.
So how does it touch you? This is really about whether the most powerful companies on earth get to profit from a product while owning none of the harm it helps cause. If 'not our problem' wins, it sets the rule for every AI tool your family will ever touch.