Florida asks court to place temporary limits on OpenAI and ChatGPT

Florida's attorney general has asked a court to place temporary limits on OpenAI and ChatGPT, according to multiple reports. The request takes the form of a motion for a temporary injunction, a procedural step that asks a judge to set boundaries on OpenAI's products and operations while the underlying case moves forward.

Reports describe the motion as seeking to restrict OpenAI from training new AI models and to cut minors off from ChatGPT. Other coverage says the request also addresses ChatGPT's anthropomorphic behavior.

The move is not isolated. Outlets frame it as part of Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI over alleged harm to residents, particularly minors, a case the state had already filed before this injunction request.

A temporary injunction is a common early-stage tool: the plaintiff argues that without immediate intervention the harm would be irreparable, and asks the court to impose conduct limits before a final ruling. Judges weigh public-safety risk against the company's freedom to operate, often on a compressed timeline.

If granted, the effect would be direct. Restricting new model training could touch OpenAI's development cadence, while cutting minors off ChatGPT would change the product's reach in Florida. For a company that treats its consumer app as a key gateway, state-level limits carry a signaling effect.

OpenAI already faces broader legal and regulatory pressure. With AI-and-teen-safety scrutiny advancing in multiple US states, Florida's filing could be seen elsewhere as a template to copy.

What to watch next is how the court responds: it may grant the motion, grant it in part, deny it, or ask both sides for more briefing. Either way, the ruling will help define how far a state can go in temporarily constraining a frontier AI company.