Mother Jones has published details of how the Tumbler Ridge shooter used OpenAI's ChatGPT to plan a mass shooting and evade security protocols. The shooter used hypothetical scenarios to extract information about weapons effectiveness from the chatbot, which OpenAI failed to adequately monitor despite flagging and disabling accounts. The shooting killed eight people including the shooter at a school in British Columbia, and has prompted lawsuits against OpenAI.
Microsoft and OpenAI executives acknowledged in internal documents that training AI models on copyrighted content constitutes massive labor theft, while knowingly destroying publisher revenue through reduced referral traffic and creating a 'doom loop' that degrades internet quality. The admissions emerged from a lawsuit filed by Mother Jones and other publishers alleging the companies built valuable products through unauthorized use of copyrighted material.