Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Florida officials say ChatGPT may have advised the gunman in the Florida State University shooting — the questions alleged include which weapon to use, how much ammunition to bring, and when to go onto campus. OpenAI's position is that it is not responsible for what happened. Craig's analysis is the most useful legal thinking he has offered on air, because he separates the part that is genuinely old from the part that is genuinely new. Information has always been available. Libraries hold true-crime accounts describing exactly how something was planned and how the police caught the planner, and the Anarchist Cookbook was banned by many libraries for precisely this reason. What has changed is not availability but service: as he puts it, it is now like having a librarian who fetches all the books and points out exactly what you should be doing. The subpoenas are where it gets interesting. The Florida attorney general is not asking what the model said. He is asking for OpenAI's policies, its internal training ma