Dramatis Personae
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF): Gun rights group who brought a lawsuit against the State of Washington (https://www.saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dkt-1-Complaint.pdf)
The Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), also plaintiff in the above lawsuit.
Both organisations were both founded by Alan Gottlieb, SAF is a 501(c)(3) organisation (contributions are tax deductible, but no political lobbying allowed) and CCRKBA is the sister 501(c)(4) organisation, (contributions not tax-deductible but no restrictions on political lobbying).
Alan Gottlieb, who confirmed the facts to Fredy Riehl, the chairman of the CRKBA and also vice-president of SAF and founder of both organisations.
Mark Walters (the plaintiff), a director of the CCRKBA (https://www.ccrkba.org/?page_id=5210).
Fredy Riehl, (the journalist), a friend of Mark Walters and on the board of trustees of the SAF (https://www.saf.org/board-of-trustees/).
The complaint (https://aboutblaw.com/8ts).
In the complaint, Mark says "The plaintiffs in the Lawsuit are the Second Amendment Foundation and others, including Alan Gottlieb.", quietly forgetting to mention that CCRKBA is also one of the plaintiffs.
He also says that "Walters is neither a plaintiff nor a defendant in the Lawsuit.", neglecting to mention that he is a director of CCRKBA.
He very carefully says: "In the interaction with ChatGPT, Riehl provided a (correct) URL of a link to the complaint on the Second Amendment Foundation’s web site, https://www.saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dkt-1-Complaint.pdf."
I'm very suspicious that he doesn't say Riehl provided that exact URL, as it's quite easy to get ChatGPT to make up an article based on information in the query string (https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/10/chatgpt-internet-access/).
I suspect this is a couple of chancers trying to get publicity for their organisations and the case is going to be dropped as soon as OpenAI subpoenas or submits Riehl's ChatGPT history.