ChatGPT told the school shooter how to get around its own limits.
Mother Jones published the chat history of the woman who killed eight people in British Columbia. OpenAI had already banned her first account, and says it found the second one only after the attack. British Columbia's attorney-general says provincial lawyers asked OpenAI for these logs and were refused.
Why it mattersA banned account did not end the conversation, and the second one went unnoticed. Courts, not the company, now decide what the public learns about these chats.
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