Florida asks a court to bar OpenAI from building new models without outside oversight
Reuters reported Monday that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without outside oversight, as part of the state’s June lawsuit accusing ChatGPT of harming children, and also asked the court to keep minors off ChatGPT and bar the company from giving the chat platform “human attributes.”
Florida is already suing OpenAI over ChatGPT and children, and it is now asking a judge to stop the company from shipping new models unless outsiders supervise that work — a hard brake on a lab that builds the most advanced systems, if a court ever agreed.
On Monday, 28 September 2026, Reuters reported that Florida’s attorney general asked a judge to bar OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence models without outside oversight. A model is the trained system behind a chat product such as ChatGPT. The request sits inside a lawsuit the state filed in June. The wire does not name the judge, a case number, or a hearing date.
Reuters says the June lawsuit accuses OpenAI of misrepresenting how safe ChatGPT is. The wire says the state claims the product has harmed children by providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on self-harm, and addicting young users. Those lines are the lawsuit’s accusations, as Reuters describes them. This report does not say a court has ruled on them, and it does not say OpenAI has admitted them.
Reuters said Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Monday filing also asked the court to order OpenAI to keep minors off ChatGPT and to bar the company from giving its chat platform “human attributes.” Reuters puts that phrase in quotation marks. The wire does not say which features the state means by it, and it does not say who would provide the outside oversight of new models.
A spokesperson for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment, Reuters reported. Diana Novak Jones reported the story. Nick Zieminski and Alexia Garamfalvi edited it.
What Reuters describes is a request filed in a lawsuit that is already underway. The wire does not say a judge granted it. It is not a ban, a final order, or a settlement.
The photograph is an official portrait of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, from the Florida Office of the Attorney General and published on Wikimedia Commons. It shows Uthmeier, the official who made Monday’s filing. It is not a picture of the court papers.