🇨🇦 AI company faces lawsuit after shooter's chatbot use flagged internally but police never called

OpenAI's safety team flagged the Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT conversations about gun violence scenarios and recommended contacting police. Leadership overruled them. Eight people died, including six children. Now families are suing in California, and legal experts are already running interference about whether tech giants have any duty to warn authorities when their platforms light up with mass murder planning. The framing is predictable: uncharted legal territory, difficult for plaintiffs, no Good Samaritan obligation. Translation: billion-dollar AI firms want zero liability for what happens when their products are used to workshop school shootings.

This is the logical endpoint of Silicon Valley's liability shield religion. They monetize engagement, harvest data, monitor everything for ad targeting, but when someone uses their chatbot to plan a massacre they suddenly become hands-off libertarians who can't possibly interfere. The same companies that will ban you for wrongthink in milliseconds claim they have no special relationship with users plotting violence.

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