{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T08:14:21.107Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"autism","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":0,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":3,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":3,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":0,"coreRelations":2,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-student-complaints-ombudsman-upholds-autistic-students-complaint-over-ai-misconduct-zero-mark-cleared-on-reconsideration","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A student with autism was invited to respond to allegations that they had included large sections of AI-generated content in an essay submission.'; 'The student said that they had not used AI to write their essay. They provided details of their essay preparations, planning and notes.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the OIA case summary, a student with autism was invited to respond to allegations of including large sections of AI-generated content in an essay, denied using AI, and provided details of their preparation, planning and notes.","causal_attribution":"The ombudsman's summary of the record; one source; reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A disciplinary panel considered the student’s written evidence and also compared the essay to some other examples of the student’s work. It decided that academic misconduct had occurred. As a penalty, the student received a mark of zero with any reassessment capped at a pass.'; 'The provider rejected the student’s appeal.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the OIA, a disciplinary panel considered the student's written evidence and compared the essay with other examples of the student's work, found academic misconduct, and gave a mark of zero with any reassessment capped at a pass; the provider rejected the student's appeal.","causal_attribution":"The ombudsman's summary of the provider's decisions; reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'They raised concerns about the reliability of AI detection software used by the provider. The student explained that the detection software had previously flagged another essay they had written for suspected use of AI but in that case it had been agreed that the student had not used AI.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In the appeal the student raised concerns about the reliability of the provider's AI detection software, saying it had previously flagged another essay of theirs for suspected AI use when it was agreed they had not used AI.","causal_attribution":"The student's account as summarised by the OIA; the earlier flag is not independently described; reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'We upheld the student’s complaint (we decided it was Justified).'; 'We were satisfied that the panel had engaged with the substance of the student’s essay, and not only relied on the AI detection software report.'; 'We concluded that the panel had not given sufficient reasons for the decision it had reached'; 'We recommended that the provider reconsider the case.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The OIA found the complaint Justified: it was satisfied the panel had not relied only on the AI detection software report, but found it had not properly considered the student's points and evidence, had not shared some evidence it relied on, and had not given sufficient reasons; it recommended reconsideration and a review of the provider's regulations.","causal_attribution":"The ombudsman's own decision; documented."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The student let us know that when the provider reconsidered the case, it decided that there had not been any academic misconduct.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the student, when the provider reconsidered the case it decided there had been no academic misconduct.","causal_attribution":"The student's report to the OIA, relayed by the OIA; the provider's reconsideration decision is not inspected; reported."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'We are the independent student complaints scheme for England and Wales.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The OIA is the independent student complaints scheme for England and Wales.","causal_attribution":"The body's own description; documented."}],"effects":[{"label":"mark of zero with reassessment capped at a pass for alleged AI use, before the provider found no misconduct (OIA summary)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the ombudsman upheld the complaint and, on reconsideration, the provider found no misconduct (student's report to the OIA)","claim_id":"c5","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.oiahe.org.uk/resources-and-publications/case-summaries/ai-and-academic-misconduct-cs072501/","kind":"regulator_decision_summary","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English on 2026-10-23 (HTTP 200). OIA case summary in its July 2025 series on AI and academic misconduct (page metadata dc.date 2025-07-08). The OIA anonymises the student and the provider; the outcome of the reconsideration is what the student told the OIA.","independence_group":"oia-case-summary-cs072501"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.oiahe.org.uk/about-us/","kind":"official_page","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-23 (HTTP 200). The OIA describes itself as the independent student complaints scheme for England and Wales; used only to identify the body, not to locate the provider.","independence_group":"oia-about-page"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["education","accessibility"],"unknowns":["When the essay was submitted and the misconduct decision made.","Which provider and which detection software were involved, and what the report said.","How much weight the panel gave the detection report relative to the comparison with other work.","Whether the student's record and mark were restored after the reconsideration."],"geography":{"basis":"The OIA reviews complaints about higher-education providers in England and Wales, but the summary does not name the provider or say where it is, and the OIA is not a court; no country is recorded from the scheme's remit alone. The jurisdiction field gives GB as the scheme's jurisdiction.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because the higher-education ombudsman reports that an AI detection report was before a panel that gave an autistic student a zero for alleged AI use, and that it upheld the student's complaint about that decision. On the student's report to the OIA, the provider then found no misconduct. The student and the provider are anonymous, the event date is not given, and the detection report's role is stated as the OIA describes it.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The OIA summary says the provider used AI detection software, that the student challenged its reliability, and that the disciplinary panel had the software's report, which the OIA found the panel did not rely on alone, together with comparisons with the student's other work when it found misconduct and gave a mark of zero. The detection report thus informed a human decision about the student. The summary does not give the report's score or name the software, and the panel's weighting of the report against the other evidence is not stated.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["informed_decision_about"]},"name":"Ombudsman upholds autistic student's complaint over AI-misconduct zero mark from panel with detection-software report; student says provider later cleared them","summary":"A case summary published in July 2025 by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA), the independent student complaints scheme for England and Wales, describes a student with autism who was accused of including large sections of AI-generated content in an essay. The student denied using AI and submitted planning and notes. A disciplinary panel, which had the provider's AI detection software report and compared the essay with other work by the student, found academic misconduct and gave a mark of zero with any reassessment capped at a pass; the provider rejected the appeal, in which the student said the same software had earlier flagged another of their essays in a case where it had been agreed they had not used AI. The OIA found the complaint Justified: the panel had not properly considered the student's evidence, had not shared some evidence it relied on, and had not given sufficient reasons. It recommended reconsideration and changes to the provider's rules, and the student told the OIA that on reconsideration the provider decided there had been no misconduct. The provider and the software are not named.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-07-08","aiSystem":"AI detection software used by the provider, whose report the disciplinary panel had alongside comparisons with the student's other work; not named in the OIA summary","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI-text detector","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the OIA case summary, an autistic student who denied using AI received a mark of zero with reassessment capped at a pass from a panel that had an AI detection report; the ombudsman upheld the complaint and, the student told the OIA, the provider later found no misconduct.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One student, given a mark of zero with reassessment capped at a pass and later cleared, according to the OIA case summary. The student did not use the detection software, so is counted among other people harmed.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.oiahe.org.uk/resources-and-publications/case-summaries/ai-and-academic-misconduct-cs072501/","primarySourceLabel":"OIA case summary CS072501, AI and academic misconduct, July 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:15:40.620144+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:15:40.620144+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["academic-integrity","higher-education","ai-detection","zero-mark","ombudsman","autism","complaint-upheld"]},{"id":"2025-companion-chatbot-user-says-quitting-brought-mental-health-episode-and-a-and-e-visit-use-resumed-2026-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I have chat bot addiction. I have used it for 3 years now.'; 'Pollybuzz, Emochi, C.AI anything I could get my hands on'; 'I started using it as a may to deal with all of that but also the isolation that comes from it too'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they have used companion chatbot apps, naming Pollybuzz, Emochi and Character.AI, for three years and describe the use as an addiction begun to cope with autism and isolation.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of their own use."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'2025 March 20th I went cold turkey.'; 'The first time I quit I actually had a mental health episode. I went to A&E once because of it.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they quit on 20 March 2025 and that this first time they quit they had a mental health episode and went to A&E once because of it.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account connecting the episode to stopping use."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When I quit I was put on antidepressants and I’m still on them now.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that when they quit they were put on antidepressants, which they still take.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I would skip days off of school too when I was actively in addiction the first time.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they skipped days of school while actively using the apps.","causal_attribution":"Poster's attribution."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'exactly a year later I fell back into it'; 'From March 2026 it has consumed me. Again.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they went back to the apps a year after quitting, could not stop, and that since March 2026 the use has consumed them again.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The guilt just hit me as soon as I stopped. I knew it was bad for the planet but the urge was too strong.'; 'Real life interaction overstimulates me and leads me to AI. I can't work/volunteer because of my autism either.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says guilt hit them as soon as they stopped and that they knew the apps were bad for the planet but the urge was too strong; they also say real-life interaction overstimulates them and leads them to AI, and that autism keeps them from working or volunteering.","causal_attribution":"Poster's own explanation, recorded as contributing factors that qualify the AI's role."}],"effects":[{"label":"mental health episode and A&E visit after quitting the apps in 2025 (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"antidepressant treatment begun when the poster quit (poster's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"skipped school days during use (poster's account)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"relapse in March 2026 that the poster says has consumed them again","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatbotAddiction/comments/1x8u29r/my_ai_addiction/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-20 through the arctic_shift archive API (post ID, link_id comment search and author search); self-text and the only comment, an automatic moderator message. reddit.com returned 403 to this host. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-chatbotaddiction-1x8u29r-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","health","education"],"unknowns":["When the poster's use began and how much time they spent; no chats or usage figures are shown.","The date of the mental health episode and A&E visit, beyond the poster placing them at the first quit (from 20 March 2025), and any clinical finding.","Which app was used most, and whether any company was contacted.","Where the poster lives."],"geography":{"basis":"The post does not say where the poster lives. Its terms (A&E, GP, gap year) and the subreddit are not evidence of location.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a first-person account of companion chatbot dependency that the poster connects to skipped school days, a mental health episode with an A&E visit when they quit in 2025, antidepressant treatment, and a relapse in 2026. Described with attribution and without corroboration; the poster's own mention of autism, isolation and guilt is recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says the experience is their own use, over three years, of companion chatbot apps they name (Pollybuzz, Emochi and C.AI), which they call a chat bot addiction. They connect that use to skipped school days, connect stopping it in March 2025 to a mental health episode with an A&E visit and antidepressant treatment, and say use resumed and consumed them from March 2026. No chat content is shown; the poster also cites autism, isolation and the guilt that hit them when they stopped.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"First-person post: companion chatbot user says quitting the apps in 2025 brought a mental health episode and an A&E visit, and heavy use resumed in 2026","summary":"In a post in r/ChatbotAddiction on 18 October 2026, a person who describes a chatbot addiction says they used companion chatbot apps, naming Pollybuzz, Emochi and Character.AI, for three years, starting as a way to cope with autism and the isolation that comes with it. They say they quit cold turkey on 20 March 2025 and that this first time they quit they had a mental health episode, went to A&E once because of it, and were put on antidepressants, which they still take. They say that while using the apps they skipped school days. They write that exactly a year later they went back to the apps and could not stop, that since March 2026 it has consumed them again, and that they want to quit but do not know whether they can. They also say guilt hit them as soon as they stopped, that they knew the apps were bad for the planet but the urge was too strong, and that they currently have a gap in their antidepressant supply. The account is uncorroborated and no chats are shown.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-18","aiSystem":"Companion chatbot apps the poster names as Pollybuzz, Emochi and C.AI (Character.AI), 'anything I could get my hands on' (poster's account; no chats or usage figures shown)","aiProduct":"Emochi, Pollybuzz and Character.AI (reported)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychiatric_deterioration","psychological_distress","educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says companion chatbot addiction led them to skip school days, that quitting in March 2025 brought a mental health episode, an A&E visit and antidepressant treatment, and that use resumed and consumed them again from March 2026 (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, who describes their own use of companion chatbot apps.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"companion","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatbotAddiction/comments/1x8u29r/my_ai_addiction/","primarySourceLabel":"r/ChatbotAddiction, 18 Oct 2026: \"My Ai addiction\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-20T03:10:35.078834+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:10:35.078834+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","companion-chatbot","dependency","emergency-visit"]},{"id":"2026-disabled-autistic-user-says-declining-chatbot-help-with-administrative-paperwork-triggers-meltdowns-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Je suis handicapé, autiste et multi Dys donc'; 'beaucoup pour rédiger des papiers administratifs'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they are disabled, autistic and have multiple learning disorders, and that AI helped them a great deal in drafting administrative paperwork.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'comprenant Claude, Chatgpt ou Gemini deviennent complètement médiocre'; 'Les réponses deviennent désuet dès les premières phrases conversationnelles malgré mes scripts'; 'Avant je pouvais sortir un dossier entier aujourdhui ils sont incapable'; 'rediger un simple mail'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says absolutely all AI apps, including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, are becoming completely mediocre, with answers going stale despite their prompt scripts, and that where they once produced whole files with them, the apps can no longer help them draft a simple email.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; what changed in the products is not established."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'À me déclencher des crises autistique violente'; 'Ça devient complètement contre productif'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises and have made the tools counterproductive for them.","causal_attribution":"Poster attributes the crises to the chatbots' answers."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Since August 24'; 'mon ordi est trop nul pour ça'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After a commenter dated the decline to 24 August and suggested a local model, the poster replied that their computer is too weak to run one.","causal_attribution":"The 24 August date is a commenter's assertion; the poster's reply is the poster's account."}],"effects":[{"label":"chatbots no longer able to help the poster draft administrative paperwork or a simple email (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"violent autistic crises the poster attributes to the degraded answers (poster's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTcomplaints/comments/1wwbzbx/lia_devient_technofasciste/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in the original French on 2026-10-04: full self-text and the thread's 2 comments, one a reply by the poster, retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID. English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-fr-autistic-chatbot-paperwork-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["accessibility","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the poster's difficulties began; the post gives no date and the 24 August date comes from a commenter.","What the administrative paperwork was for and whether any deadline or entitlement was affected.","How often the crises occur and whether the poster has other support for the paperwork.","The poster's location."],"geography":{"basis":"The post is written in French but does not say where the poster lives or used the apps; no country is inferred from the language.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter's public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of an ongoing accessibility harm (loss of chatbot help with paperwork and resulting autistic crises), described with attribution and without corroboration. The poster's handle is not recorded and no health details beyond those the poster gives as context are included.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster names Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini among the AI apps that, they say, can no longer help them draft a simple email, and describes the change in their answers; no examples, dates or screenshots were published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"First-person forum account (in French): a disabled autistic person with multiple learning disorders who relied on chatbots to draft administrative paperwork says ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini have become unable to help even with a simple email, and that the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises","summary":"In a public French-language post to r/ChatGPTcomplaints at 02:32 UTC on 3 October 2026, a person who describes themself as disabled, autistic and affected by multiple learning disorders (\"multi Dys\") says AI chatbots used to help them a great deal in drafting administrative paperwork. They write that absolutely all AI apps, including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, are becoming completely mediocre: answers go stale from the first conversational sentences despite the scripts they use, and where they could once put together an entire file, the apps can no longer help them draft a simple email. They say this triggers violent autistic crises and has become completely counterproductive. Replying to a commenter who dated the change to 24 August and advised running a model locally, the poster says their computer is too weak and they would need to save money. The changes to the products are described only by the poster, and the account is uncorroborated.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-10-03","aiSystem":"Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini (general-purpose chatbots), used with the poster's own prompt scripts to draft administrative paperwork","aiProduct":"ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini","aiCompany":"OpenAI; Anthropic; Google","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","functional_impairment"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster, a disabled autistic person, says the chatbots they relied on to draft administrative paperwork (ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini) can no longer help them write even a simple email and that the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises (first-person account in French, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"assistant","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTcomplaints/comments/1wwbzbx/lia_devient_technofasciste/","primarySourceLabel":"r/ChatGPTcomplaints, 3 October 2026: \"L'ia devient technofasciste\" (French)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:22:09.949668+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:22:09.949668+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","french-language","chatgpt","claude","gemini","accessibility","autism","disability","administrative-paperwork","product-change","communicated-with"]}]}