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A lawsuit asks a judge to act. It does not mean the judge has agreed.

That distinction matters here: nobody has ordered an AI freeze.

On November 12, 4 nonprofits sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI, SpaceX's AI division, in San Francisco Superior Court. They want development and deployment of more capable AI models stopped.

The plaintiffs are the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and the Alliance for Secure AI.

Their argument uses California's unfair competition law and public nuisance: they say existing law already forbids knowingly developing and releasing unsafe products that threaten the public. That is their legal claim, not a court finding.

The delicious paperwork twist: the complaint cites the industry's own earlier warnings. AP describes Dario Amodei's past warning that AI could go badly and Elon Musk's earlier warning about catastrophic risks.

Neither was responding to this lawsuit.

Picture Lil'meme wheeling in a mountain of receipts while the executives discover they supplied the printer. Usually the warning label stays on the product.

Here, it gets its own court file.

The useful takeaway: distinguish a request from an order, and a company's warning from proof of legal wrongdoing. The judge still has to assess the claims.

Source: Associated Press.

Repost this before somebody declares the courtroom has unplugged the internet.

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