OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago (www.theguardian.com)

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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.

OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities”.

The San Francisco tech company said on Friday it considered whether to refer the account to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) but determined at the time that the account activity did not meet a threshold for referral to law enforcement.

OpenAI banned the account in June 2025 for violating its usage policy.

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[-] fourish@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

Before passing judgement (not that our opinions matter) I would’ve liked to see what was in the OpenAI transcripts.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Now that we know they exist, I'm sure the police will somehow get ahold of them, could we not then eventually do a freedom of information act request for it from the police?