The great Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OPenAI and Sam Altman on Friday for lying to and misleading Texans on safety concerns.
The suit was filed on Friday October 23, 2026, in Collin County district court. The suit alleges OpenAI misled consumers about ChatGPT’s safety and failed to protect Texans — including children — from harmful AI outputs
Here is the press release on today’s lawsuit.
And here is Ken Paxton’s announcement on X.
BREAKING: I sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for lying to users and harming Texans. https://t.co/hFFiZBTDCZ
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 23, 2026
According to the Woodlands Online the suit asserts:
** Misrepresented safety and reliability of ChatGPT while omitting significant risks
** Failed to implement adequate guardrails, allowing harmful outputs such as encouragement of self-harm, violence, or addiction
** Rushed products to market for profit, disregarding internal safety warnings
** Collected minors’ data without parental oversight and allegedly contributed to incidents like AI-assisted mass shootings
The lawsuit invokes Texas deceptive trade practices act and the securing children online through parental empowerment act.
Civil penalties could reach $10,000 per violation.
alleges the company sold ChatGPT as safe and reliable while keeping quiet about its risks.
** FYI: AG Ken Paxton is running against wildly deceptive and extremely radical Democrat James Talarico for the US Senate seat in Texas.
Please contribute to his campaign these last two weeks if you can!
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