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Cake day: June 23rd, 2025

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre, our investigation reveals.

In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.

In case anybody doubted the corporation that was actively complicit.

  • The prime minister was asked if Altman apologised.

    “Yes, he clearly … we can get into word games, but he clearly accepted that the company had not done good enough,” Albanese said.

    Yeah, don’t worry, Americans don’t know what he’s actually saying half the time either.

    Albanese said the incident was complex and unprecedented.

    “It was a shock that it occurred because it was real and serious,” he said.

    “But it also, I think, was something that had been predicted, including by the AI companies themselves.”

    Right again. If only they could figure out what to do about it.

    Australia is one of the countries banning teens from social media. Shouldn’t they be able to ban OpenAI from their country too? Just give Sammy and Co a restraining order? Certainly makes more sense than the social media stuff, as companies can actually be held liable for things they intentionally do.

Infuriatingly for iOS users, the only way to disable these promos is to either let them expire — which in many cases could take weeks or even months, leaving a persistent notification badge on the Settings app in the meantime — or pay for the service being offered.

Infuriatingly for iOS users, the only way to disable these promos is to either let them expire — which in many cases could take weeks or even months, leaving a persistent notification badge on the Settings app in the meantime — or pay for the service being offered.