Canada's national police service, which conducts federal criminal investigations including cybercrime alongside contracted provincial and municipal policing.
British Columbia and victims' families have filed more than 37 lawsuits alleging ChatGPT coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter on evading its safety filters. Whether a court treats a chatbot as a product decides if the liability stops at OpenAI or reaches every lab that ships a model.
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The Justice Department seized this service's original domain in December 2022 and arrested six people. The FBI has now taken two more of its domains, and the warrant affidavit counts hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022.
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The province wants damages for its recovery from the Tumbler Ridge shooting and an order changing how OpenAI handles conversations that could lead to violence. Its case starts with a flag raised in June 2025.
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The province's negligence claim turns on an internal recommendation to notify the RCMP about the Tumbler Ridge shooter's chats. For anyone shipping a conversational product, the review queue is now a discoverable record.
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Every AI failure on the policing record surfaced because it was conspicuous. The courtroom question is different: can any agency document what a model touched, and who checked it before signing.
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