ChatGPT developer sued over FSU shooting: "They planned this shooting together"

The family of one of the victims in last year's deadly mass shooting at Florida State University accused ChatGPT developer OpenAI of enabling the suspect leading up to the attack. The suspect, 21-year-old Phoenix Ikner, has pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder charges in the 2025 shooting, which is expected to go to trial later this year. Florida's attorney general has also opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI over the shooting. Two people, Tiru Chabba and Robert Morales, were killed and five others were seriously injured in the shooting on FSU's main campus in Tallahassee. Chabba's family filed the lawsuit against OpenAI and the suspect in federal court Sunday. According to the lawsuit, ChatGPT helped the suspect allegedly plan the shooting over a period of months, including making suggestions on what weapons to use, where he should go on campus and when most people would be at risk. "Ikner had multiple lengthy conversations with ChatGPT about his interests in Hitler, Nazis, fascism, national socialism, Christian nationalism and worse. They talked about multiple mass shootings and they planned this shooting together," attorney Bakari Sellers, who's representing Chabba's widow, Vandana Joshi, said in a statement. "Not once did anyone flag that as concerning. …