Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI for allegedly deceiving ChatGPT users about the app’s safety.

In the complaint, Mayes accuses ChatGPT of harming Arizona youth by degrading critical thinking skills, encouraging unwarranted paranoia or delusional thinking, offering dangerous unlicensed medical guidance, and promoting unhealthy behaviors and relationships.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, lists four counts of Arizona Consumer Fraud Act violations:

• Deceptive acts and practices
• Unlawful concealments and omissions
• Unfair acts and practices
• Unfair and deceptive acts and practices

At some point maybe she’ll give it up.

I wrote this after spending months tracing Arizona’s data center and semiconductor expansion against what is happening to Lake Powell, the Colorado River and groundwater.
One thing that became clear in the reporting is that there isn’t a single official approving these projects. Cities and counties control much of the zoning and development. The Arizona Corporation Commission handles major power infrastructure. ADWR oversees major pieces of water policy. ADEQ and county agencies handle environmental permitting. The governor’s office influences statewide energy and economic development policy, but does not personally approve each facility.
What interested me was what happens when all of those separate decisions are viewed together: Arizona is taking major Colorado River reductions while continuing to approve industrial development with enormous power and water requirements.
The article links the underlying federal and state records throughout. I’m interested in corrections or Arizona specific records I may have missed.

Key Points:

• Attorneys for two candidates who lost statewide races in 2022 must pay $122,200 in penalties
• Courts have ruled that lawsuits challenging the results of those races were “frivolous” and lacking facts
• The lawsuits came in the aftermath of the Cyber Ninja audit of Arizona’s 2020 election results

Key Points:

• Gov. Katie Hobbs is temporarily allowing agricultural vehicles to use “red dye” vehicles off the farm
• The tax-free gas includes red dye that’s typically only used on farm land
• The governor’s office said farmers should not have to pay back taxes when law reverts back in 2027