SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 20 – As the
artificial intelligence legal beat ramps up in the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York,
NDCA, Illinois, Florida and elsewhere, Inner City Press
has submitted freedom of information requests to states,
following up on its obtaining and appealing for records
regarding Live Nation and Ticketmaster, including its SDNY
FOIA lawsuit:
Here's from the request filed with
California's Attoney General Bonta:
All records since January 1, 2024,
reflecting the California AG's Consumer Protection
Section's enforcement or oversight activity regarding
artificial intelligence,
including:
• All records reflecting any
California AG investigation or enforcement action under
the Unfair Competition Law (Bus. & Prof. Code §
17200), the False Advertising Law (Bus. & Prof. Code §
17500), or the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (Civ. Code §
1750) directed at AI companies or related to AI chatbot
practices;
• All records reflecting California's
participation in any multistate AG coalition related to AI
safety, deepfakes, AI data practices, or AI harm to
minors, seniors, or vulnerable populations; •
All records reflecting any California AG review of AI
companies' compliance with the California Consumer Privacy
Act (CCPA/CPRA), the California Age-Appropriate Design
Code Act, or any other California privacy or consumer
protection statute; and • All records
reflecting any California AG legal analysis of whether AI
chatbot outputs that cause psychological, physical, or
financial harm to consumers create liability under
California law.
Category C: Consumer Complaints About AI
Services All records since January
1, 2023, reflecting consumer complaints received by the
California AG's office or the California Department of
Consumer Affairs from California residents
regarding: • OpenAI's
ChatGPT, including complaints about harm to minors or
vulnerable users, mental health impacts, sycophancy, data
privacy violations, deceptive outputs, and compulsive
use; • Any AI chatbot or conversational AI
service, including Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini,
Anthropic Claude, Meta AI, xAI Grok, Character.AI,
Replika, or similar services; • AI-generated
content used for fraud or consumer deception, including
deepfake fraud and AI voice cloning scams; and
• Any complaint in which a consumer identified AI
chatbot outputs as contributing to financial loss,
self-harm, suicidal ideation, or dangerous
behavior.
For each category: (a) total complaints
received; (b) number referred to other agencies; (c)
number resulting in enforcement action; and (d) any
aggregate trend analysis. Individual complaints may be
produced with personal identifying information redacted
under Gov. Code § 7928.000.
Category D: OpenAI's Non-Profit to For-Profit
Conversion All records since
January 1, 2024, reflecting the California AG's review of
OpenAI's conversion from a non-profit to a for-profit
entity, including: all communications between the
California AG and OpenAI or its counsel regarding the
restructuring; all records of the commitments OpenAI made
to the California AG in connection with the Statement of
No Objection; all California AG analyses of whether the
restructuring complied with California's charitable trust
laws; and all records of any monitoring or follow-up on
OpenAI's compliance with those
commitments.
Category E: Internal AI Policy and Legal
Analyses All non-privileged
records since January 1, 2024, reflecting the California
AG's internal policy positions, legal analyses, or
memoranda regarding: the application of California's
Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act to
AI chatbot outputs; the California Age-Appropriate Design
Code Act's application to AI services; AI safety standards
for minors and vulnerable adults; state authority to
regulate AI; and any California AG position on proposed
federal preemption of state AI
regulation.
Category F: AI Data Centers — Consumer,
Energy, and Community Impact
Records All records since January
1, 2024, reflecting consumer complaints received by, or
enforcement activity undertaken by, the California AG's
office relating to AI data centers located in or proposed
for California, including: •
All consumer or community complaints regarding AI data
center operations, including complaints about: excessive
energy consumption and its effect on California utility
rates and grid reliability; water consumption for cooling
systems and its effect on California water supplies during
drought conditions; noise, light, or other environmental
impacts on neighboring communities; and representations
made by data center operators to local governments, the
California Public Utilities Commission, or the public
about community benefits; • All records
reflecting any California AG investigation or enforcement
action related to data center operators' representations
to local governments, the CPUC, or the California Energy
Commission about energy costs, tax revenue, job creation,
or community impact, including any inquiry into whether
such representations constituted unfair or deceptive
practices under the Unfair Competition Law; •
All records reflecting any California AG communications
with the California Public Utilities Commission, the
California Energy Commission, the State Water Resources
Control Board, or local governments regarding the impact
of AI data center energy and water demand on California
consumers, ratepayers, and water users; • All
records reflecting any California AG review of data center
operators' compliance with California environmental law,
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), water use
permits, or local zoning representations; and
• All records reflecting any
California AG communications with Microsoft, Google,
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Oracle, Apple, or any other
major AI data center operator regarding facility siting,
energy contracts, water use, or community impact
agreements in California.
Similar requests have been filed
with the other states. Sample for Arizona on June 20,
2026:
"The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has
received your correspondence to Public Records, we will
respond accordingly."
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