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A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users Back in June I wrote Wait. Florida? because Florida had just become the first state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT, and I had to read it twice. I said the broken clock was right, and I was still looking at it sideways. Yesterday it was eight more. Per Bloomberg Law, attorneys general from Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia and Nebraska each sued OpenAI on Wednesday, separately, in their own state courts. Bloomberg calls it a first-of-its-kind bipartisan effort: seven Republican AGs and one Democrat, Arizona's Kris Mayes. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and West Virginia held a joint press conference at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. The other four filed at home. Arkansas's own release quietly adds Utah to the pile. As of this morning nobody else's does, and Utah hasn't said a word, so I'm counting eight. The AGs said more could follow. Iowa's Brenna Bird put it about as plainly as you can: OpenAI told people all over the…