Emma Gillespie

They were postgrad students.

And after weeks of searching for their bodies, they were found dead in separate locations.

One of the victim's roommate and a former student of the same university, a 26-year-old man, was charged with two counts of murder.

Prosecutors allege he used ChatGPT to ask, quote, what happens if a human was put in a black garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster days before students went missing?

Eleven days later, one of the students' bodies was found in a black garbage bag.

That suspected shooter also asked ChatGPT, are cars checked at the Hillsborough River State Park?

That is the location near where the second body was found in a waterway on the 26th of April.

Both victims in that attack are understood to have been shot.

So they have addressed these Florida incidents.

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said ChatGPT is not responsible for these terrible crimes.

They said the platform provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources, including the internet, and that ChatGPT did not encourage or promote illegal or harmful activity.

So a full denial of this insinuation that ChatGPT aided in these offences.

Yeah, pretty much.

And OpenAI has also said that in both of these cases, its models encouraged the alleged shooters to seek mental health support.

So that's part of its defence.

And it should also be noted that in a separate, a third other incident, which is actually not related to the Florida suit but I think is important, Sam Altman has actually apologised over a school shooting in Canada.

You might remember this one from February.

Five students and a teacher were killed.

25 more were injured when an 18-year-old shooter opened fire on a school in British Columbia.

She later died by suicide after the shooting and her mother and brother were found dead at a nearby home.