from FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 16:26
https://lemmy.world/post/43416422
TORONTO (AP) — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police 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 it considered whether to refer the account the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 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.
The 18-year-old killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia last week and died from a self-inflicted gun shot wound.
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It isn’t clear from the article how they knew which account was associated with the individual such that they could proactively contact the RCMP after the shooting.
Most people just use their Google accounts I reckon.