The federal government has long leaned on tech companies to fork over user data to aide in its law enforcement investigations. However, while social media companies, search engines, and other tech platforms have all surrendered data in the pursuit of federal probes, AI companies have largely remained an untouched frontier, legally speaking—until now, that is.

Forbes writes that a unit within the Department of Homeland Security that investigates child sex crimes has asked OpenAI to turn over information about a user that they say is the administrator of a child abuse website. The person in question discussed their use of ChatGPT with an undercover agent on the child abuse site, which spurred the government to ask the company for records that might assist with their case.

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