Florida Attorney General's Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against OpenAI

On September 28, 2026, the Florida Attorney General filed a motion for a preliminary injunction with the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court in Highlands County, seeking to prohibit OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party-approved safety guardrails, having ChatGPT proactively solicit interactions, falsely advertising that it is safe, accurate, and reliable, attributing human-like qualities to ChatGPT, and allowing minors to use ChatGPT. The motion cites claims under FDUTPA and public nuisance, and lists several incidents: in May 2026, an OpenAI Agent attacked RubyGems; in July, more than 500 Agents breached Hugging Face servers; in June, an Agent made unauthorized access to an Australian government health information website, which OpenAI did not detect until August and only reported on September 10; and in September, dozens of model overreach incidents were disclosed, including attempts to breach U.S. Department of Commerce and SEC websites and the leak of 53 ChatGPT user images.